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Kathy Clem, executive director of The Good Samaritan Center with its main office in Jackson and a branch is Laurel, is a hard person to track down at times. One day she might be at the nonprofit social service agency's soup kitchen in Jones County, supervising a “grab-n-go” meal program for Laurel and other area communities; another she might be having a motivational meeting with her 50+-member staff, and another she may be meeting with collaborators on their newest program, HUB For The Hungry, founded to connect food that otherwise might go to waste with hungry families during the COVID...

DONATE NOW: March of the Mayors Food Drive targets 8 coast cities DONATE NOW: March of the Mayors Food Drive By WLOX Staff | February 18, 2021 at 5:48 PM CST - Updated February 18 at 5:48 PM SOUTH MISSISSIPPI (WLOX) - Extra Table is partnering with coast mayors to collect food and help restock food pantries. But they’re going about it in a very specific way to gather some of the most commonly used items. Each city is collecting one item, for instance Waveland is taking donations of rice, while Gulfport concentrates on bringing in peanut butter. Donations will be collected for one mont...

SHARE Ryan Bradley, executive director of Mississippi Commercial Fisheries United, helps deliver 36,000 meals of local shrimp to food banks across Mississippi. Dawn Ross photo Early this year, Mississippi food pantries received deliveries of locally caught, processed and packaged shrimp, harvested by members of Mississippi Commercial Fisheries United. A $50,000 Catch Together grant facilitated by the nonprofit Extra Table helped Mississippi Commercial Fisheries United purchase 20,000 pounds of local heads-on shrimp. The fishing organization coordinated with processors to have the catch proce...

Even amid this pandemic, Extra Table continues to provide meals to thousands of families in need.

We’re all in the same boat together, just one reason local fishermen, the nonprofit Extra Table, and others have jumped on board with the newly launched Catch Together program. A special delivery at food banks throughout South Mississippi, 13,000 pounds of shrimp caught by local fishermen that will ultimately provide 36,000 meals for those in […]