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Below is a listing of news articles featuring the food bank or covering topics related to our cause. Please click the headlines to read more of each article.

Boy Scouts Hold Food Drive

Date: Mar 6, 2010
Author: Jenny Meckles, KOMU TV-8
COLUMBIA - Boy Scouts across Missouri collected food Saturday for their annual "Scouting for Food" drive.

All food and donations go to the Central Missouri Food Bank. One den of Scouts from Columbia set up a post outside the Gerbes off Nif... more

CANstruction: Local architects show their
construction skills at a charity event

Date: Mar 4, 2010
Author: Chelsea Deptula, VOX Magazine
The loud echo of clear adhesive tape drowns out the laughter of two tiny girls playing with cans of tuna on the floor. The two giggle and show off their stacks of canned fish for the reporters and their cameras. Their uncontrollable laughter mixes wi... more

Local Workers Use Cans to Help Charity

Date: Feb 27, 2010
Author: Erin Stevenson, KOMU TV-8
JEFFERSON CITY - Teams of engineers and architects took on hunger Saturday by building sculptures out of canned goods.

Can-struction workers built the art from donated goods, as part of the 12th annual can-struction mid-Missouri competitio... more

Hungry Missourians look to food pantries

Date: Feb 19, 2010
Author: Eden Derby, KTVO TV-3
KIRKSVILLE, MO - The latest report from Feeding America shows one in eight Missourians
are receiving help from food banks.

Our Fact Finder Team spoke with a representative of the
Central Missouri Food Bank for local numbers. ... more

Poverty takes a toll on community

Date: Feb 18, 2010
Author: Shawn Shinneman, TruLife - Truman University
Each month, the LOVE I.N.C. food pantry at Kirksville's Church of the Nazarene hosts a large food distribution at 5 p.m. on a Friday. But hours before the doors open, hungry Kirksville residents show up to take their spots in line. The first of these... more

Businesses support food bank's peanut butter drive

Date: Feb 17, 2010
Author: Mallory McGowin, KRCG TV-13
COLUMBIA, MO. -- Columbia businesses and organizations are teaming up with the Central Missouri Food Bank to collect peanut butter for the agency's Buddy Pack program.

Collection bins for the peanut butter are in place at the new Wilson's ... more

ESPN anchor John Anderson to host Columbia golf tournament

Date: Feb 17, 2010
Author: Alex Giddings, Columbia Missourian
COLUMBIA – John Anderson, a host on ESPN's "SportsCenter" is set to host his First Annual John Anderson Celebrity Golf Invitational on June 28th at the Country Club of Missouri.

Anderson is a 1987 graduate of the MU School of Journalism.... more

Three Mexico Schools Participating in BuddyPack Program

Date: Feb 12, 2010
Author: Kimberly Long, Mexico Ledger
Mexico, Mo. -
Sharing food. Bringing hope. The Central Missouri Food Bank and three local elementary schools are working together to make sure that students of low-income families have something to eat when they're not in school.

The... more