Food pantry

Horseshoe Lakers 4-H Club members Maisie Sitton and Breyden Martin were two of several members who helped stock the pantry with necessity items. Photo provided.
The Horseshoe Lakers 4-H Club recently opened its first Community Helpers Pantry location. For two weeks, the pantry will be located at the Horseshoe Lake Community Building in Olive Branch. Members of the 4-H club will stock the pantry with school supplies, as well as pet, baby and toiletry items...
Jonesboro Elementary School presented two local organizations with donations on Monday, Dec. 19. Students spent the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas break collecting canned goods, personal care items and money for two local organizations. The students collected 2,008 pounds of canned food...
Several 4-Hers delivered food to the Daystar Food Pantry in Cairo after the Stuff-A-Truck event.
The Horseshoe Lakers 4-H Club had a Stuff-A-Truck event on Saturday, Nov. 19, at Foodtown in Olive Branch and at Stop and Shop in Mounds. The 4-Hers collected more than 1,000 pounds of food for the Daystar Food Pantry in Cairo. Photos provided.
From left are Debbie Knupp, Vera Bridges, Tina Sims, Chris Boyd, Steve Fear, Todd Thurston and Suzanne Baugher. Photo provided.
The Happy Helpers Pantry in Tamms won the Lite 4 Bite drawing at the annual Southern Illinois Electric Cooperative meeting on Thursday, Aug. 4. Employees delivered over 1,000 pounds of canned food to them on Aug. 5, all donated by SIEC members when they came to the meeting.  The Happy Helpers Food...
T-shirts are helping to promote the #FarmingForGood effort. Photo by EGS Photography of Union County.
Rendleman Orchards in Alto Pass saw a need – and asked what could be done to fill some gaps in a dire community need.   With state funding dwindling and small non-profits struggling all around them, the #FarmingForGood Project was born.   Rendleman Orchards said in a news release that the mission...

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