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GREAT BEND TRIBUNE GB Taco Bell joins effort to help fight childhood hunger Taco Bell in Great Bend, 3607 W. 10th St., is working with Kansas Food Bank’s Food 4 Kids Program to help feed chronically hungry children. - photo by Susan Thacker Taco Bell is teaming up with the Kansas Food Bank’s Food 4 Kids Program to help chronically hungry children. Every Friday during the school year, the Kansas Food Bank provides backpacks ...

Help Hays Taco Bell, Kansas Food Bank fight child hunger Kansas Food Bank press release Taco Bell is teaming up with the Kansas Food Bank’s Food 4 Kids Program to help chronically hungry children. Every Friday during the school year, the Kansas Food Bank provides backpacks of food for children who don’t get enough to eat at home on the weekends. From March 18th through March 31st, participating Taco Bell restaurants across Kansas, including the one in Hays (located at 1730 Vine Street), wi...

Lunch Break marks 38 years of caring for individuals in need of assistance × RED BANK – Lunch Break, a social service organization that provides food, clothing, fellowship, life skills and employment training, is celebrating 38 years of caring for the well-being of hundreds of families and individuals living at or below the poverty line in Monmouth County and beyond. The organization’s origins date to 1983 as a food pantry organized by Norma Todd and community leaders to alleviate ...

Baha’i Faith members donate to Caring Kitchen Submitted photo Members of the Baha’i Faith from Champaign and Clark counties deliver 40 bags of personal items to the Caring Kitchen on Feb. 26. The contents of each bag are tailored to the specific needs of a man, woman, boy or girl. Donations include handmade blankets for infants. The bags contain basic items, including socks, soap, a toothbrush and toothpaste, shampoo, comb and, for children, coloring books, crayons and a small toy or stuff...

Sentinel Staff Writer Blake Faith Giving spirit — Greta Lintelman is a board member at the Heaven’s Table Food Shelf. Here she is in one of a few areas where food and supplies are kept. FAIRMONT — Heaven’s Table Food Shelf board member Greta Lintelman thinks highly of the way she, her other board members, and volunteers were able to keep the business open while dealing with a global pandemic. The process took a lot of adapting, changing things around and keeping this free service ...

Student-run free grocery store helps feed Texas towns hungry The idea is to provide students with job skills, and at the same time help students, staff and community residents who are in need. Author: LUIS ANDRES HENAO (Associated Press) Published: 11:30 AM EST January 26, 2021 Updated: 11:30 AM EST January 26, 2021 SANGER, Texas — Traditional school stores might offer snacks and knickknacks, school gear and notebooks — but the one at Linda Tu...

UpdatedMon, Mar 1, 2021 at 9:54 pm ET Replies(125) Stock photo (Shutterstock) MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ — It was mid-December, and students in a class of Monmouth County third-graders were at their home computers doing online learning. That was when the teacher noticed one of the girls, 9, kept fidgeting. She could not seem to sit still or pay attention. The teacher told her to focus, and the girl abruptly started crying. Her cries turned to sobs; she could not stop crying on the Zoom call. That wa...

Updated: 6:04 PM EST Feb 10, 2021 Allen Devlin United Way of Anderson County, Second Harvest Food Bank and all of the Anderson County school districts are partnering for the annual Snack Pack program that feeds underprivileged students in the county. The program provides take-home meals on Fridays for select students who are unable to receive adequate nutrition over the weekend. The program ensures that they return to school the following week well-fed and ready to learn....

The Sunrise Foundation has a busy week. The group is part of the local online fundraiser, which covers the state of North Dakota with a powerful message –a heart –, and it is being displayed by local businesses. In addition to online donations, the foundation will have people at Lasting Visions and the Frontier Travel Center for those people who want to physically hand over donations Thursday morning. Not only will it have in impact in Bowman County and surrounding areas, but also it ...

F.I.S.H. of Sanibel-Captiva volunteers Carol and Gerry Gorby assisted with the Backpack Program — easy to prepare nonperishable, nutritious foods for children