Nov 10, 2016
Lake City Food Shelf Treasurer Mavis Hawkins (center) and Executive Director Carole Helgerson (right) present Al Thompson with a check for $5,200. The money, representing half of the proceeds from Ardent Mills’ golf tournament in September, will go toward the Packing for the Weekend’s efforts to...
Oct 19, 2016
Last year sixth graders at Bluff View Elementary School heard a presentation on the Packing for the Weekend program and decided to help. Their efforts, plus a match from Fiesta Foods, generated 104 jars of peanut butter for the program, which provides weekend meals to children who recieve free and...
Oct 19, 2016
An effort to get Lake City students more involved in the community and the world through volunteering has expanded to Bluff View Elementary School.
Four years ago, Lincoln High School students began participating in global and local service projects like raising money to help an African village...
Oct 6, 2016
The first annual Nourishing the Lake on the Links Golf Tournament on Sept. 10 at the Zumbro Falls Golf Course raised $10,377 for two local food programs. Ardent Mills, which organized the tournament, donated $5,200 to the Packing for the Weekend program and the rest to the Lake City Food Shelf....
Sep 29, 2016
Federal-Mogul has contributed $1,000 to Packing for the Weekend Lake City in support of their new nutrition initiative. This donation allows addition of more fresh and frozen items to the weekly offerings to families with children needing additional assistance. “Initiatives such as this are a part...
Sep 29, 2016
A program that provides food to families of children eligible for free or reduced-price school lunches is expanding to offer more “nutritionally dense” foods.
Since 2012, volunteers with the Packing for the Weekend program have assembled and delivered bags of food.
It’s a broad-based community...