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Menards serving as drop site for food donations.

The Clear Lake Farmers Market is participating in a unique program that helps combat local food insecurity. It's called The Double Up Food Bucks progr

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  Feeding Iowans Task Force to scale back its work as report details efforts to combat food insecurity in Iowa BY MICHAEL CRUMB, Senior Staff Writer Thursday, May 13, 2021 10:16 AM Northeast Iowa Food Bank volunteers Eileen Gunderson, left, and Grace Coates check dates on perishable items in the food bank’s sorting room in Waterloo. File photo by Duane Tinkey A year after it was created to help fight soaring levels of food insecurity brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, the...

Dec 15, 2020 A program established in late April to generate pork donations to hungry Iowans is receiving a generous boost to keep meat on their plates. Zoetis, a leading animal health company, is donating $25,000 to Pass the Pork for processing and storage of ground pork that will provide 40,000 servings of pork to Iowans in need. Pass the Pork is a coordinated program that has support from the Iowa governor’s Feeding Iowans Task Force, the Iowa Food Bank Association, the Iowa Department of ...