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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.

Church provides free summer dinners

Date: Jul 2, 2010
Author: Wes Duplantier, Mexico Ledger
Mexico, Mo. — On Monday night, the menu was spaghetti, garlic bread and salad. Tuesday was fried chicken. And both meals were free to those who came and got them this week at the Second Missionary Baptist Church. The church’s health ministry, al... more

ESPN's John Anderson hosts charity golf tournament

Date: Jun 28, 2010
Author: Kayla Miller, Columbia Missourian
COLUMBIA — From anchoring ESPN’s “SportsCenter” to co-hosting ABC’s reality show “Wipeout,” John Anderson stays busy these days. However, he is never too busy to help out for a good cause, especially if it offers a homecoming of sorts. ... more

Mizzou Alum's Benefit Helps Local Charities

Date: Jun 28, 2010
Author: Alex Rozier, KOMU TV-8
COLUMBIA - ESPN's own and Mizzou alum John Anderson is back in the Show-Me State to show off his golf game, and help out a few people too.

The John Anderson Celebrity Golf Invitational tees off tomorrow in Columbia.

"With a l... more

Firefighters Fight Hunger

Date: Jun 26, 2010
Author: Nina Moini, KOMU TV-8
COLUMBIA - Firefighters spent the day in the heat to extinguish hunger.

Columbia professional firefighters teamed up with the Central Missouri Food Bank to collect food donations for the second year in a row at Columbia Hyvee stores.
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John Anderson's charity golf event kicks off with Sunday gathering

Date: Jun 25, 2010
Author: Columbia Missourian Staff
COLUMBIA — A pre-event gathering to Monday's John Anderson Celebrity Golf Invitational is planned for Sunday evening at Shiloh Bar and Grill in downtown Columbia.

ESPN SportsCenter anchor John Anderson, a 1987 graduate of the MU School ... more

Letter carriers' food drive sends message of caring

Date: May 3, 2010
Author: Michelle Brooks of Jefferson City News Tribune
Serving others is one of the best parts of Kelly Malone's job. Seeing how others help each other is too.

As a letter carrier with the U.S. Postal Service, Malone looks forward to being a part of Stamp Out Hunger with his coworkers, his fam... more

Gray, Roland & Daniel to Headline Anderson Celebrity Golf Invitational

Date: Apr 5, 2010
Author: HermannNews.com
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou football legends Mel Gray, Johnny Roland and Chase Daniel are just three of the celebrities committed to participating in the first annual John Anderson Celebrity Golf Invitational presented by Midwest Computech being held Ju... more

Columnist’s ‘Plant a Row’ program helps feed nation’s hungry

Date: Mar 15, 2010
Author: Jan Wiese-Fales, Columbia Daily Tribune
Writer and lawyer Jeff Lowenfels has been penning a garden column in the Anchorage Daily News since 1976. Along the way, he had the idea to ask his readers to plant an extra row of vegetables in their gardens to share with the Anchorage, Alaska, soup... more