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GEORGE KENNEDY: You, Too, Can Help Feed the Hungry in Boone County

Missouri School of Journalism

It’s one of the best things we do as a community, feeding our hungry neighbors.

I hope you read the Missourian report Thursday in which Jiwon Choi described the summer programs that provide lunch for kids of all ages. The most troubling fact in that article, I thought, was that even with 19 locations in Columbia, the programs still leave children without enough to eat.

You can consider this a follow-up.

As penance for a career in journalism, I’ve been a volunteer at the Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri for more than a dozen years. This week I had the opportunity to spend a couple of mornings at the Central Pantry, which is our main retail outlet. Located for about eight years on Big Bear Boulevard, the pantry is really a grocery store — with one important difference. Nobody pays...

 

Read the complete column online at the Missourian.