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News - February
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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.
Local Workers Use Cans to Help Charity
Date: Feb 27, 2010Author: 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, 2010Author: 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, 2010Author: 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, 2010Author: 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, 2010Author: 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, 2010Author: 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
Build-A-Bear Workshop hopes to raise $2,000
Date: Feb 11, 2010Author: Caitlyn Emmett, Columbia Missourian
MU students gathered Wednesday in Stotler Lounge to stuff teddy tigers as part of a charity fundraiser. Now in its third year, the Build-A-Bear Workshop hopes to double last year's haul of $1,000.
The event was hosted by the Student Union ... more
Study Shows State of Hunger in Missouri
Date: Feb 8, 2010Author: Michelle Flandreau, KOMU TV-8
FULTON - A new study by the Missouri Food Bank Association (MFBA) and Feeding America shows one in eight Missourians needs help getting food.
One food pantry feeling the effects of hunger in Missouri is the SERVE Inc. Food Pantry. Callawa... more
Central Missouri Food Bank acquires new director of donor relations
Date: Feb 6, 2009Author: Annie Hildebrandt of The Columbia Missourian
Retired Columbia banker Dan Scotten has agreed to come out of retirement to become director of donor relations for the Central Missouri Food Bank.
The new position, which includes a salary, calls on Scotten to reach out to untapped d... more