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		<title>Kansas Food Bank Helps the City of Wichita’s Atwater and Colvin Neighborhood City Halls Keep Feeding Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the Federal Summer Food Program drawing to a close, the Kansas Food Bank and the City of Wichita are stepping forward to ensure that children living in two of the City’s most economically challenged areas do not go hungry. The Federal program officially ends July 30th and school begins August 16th. That leaves two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kansasfoodbank.org/kansas-food-bank-helps-the-city-of-wichita%e2%80%99s-atwater-and-colvin-neighborhood-city-halls-keep-feeding-kids</link>
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		<title>Cessa Car, Truck &amp; Bike Show &#8211; July 31, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cessna Customer Service Center presents the 5th Annual Car, Truck and Bike Show to benefit the Kansas Food Bank this upcoming weekend, on July 31st from 2:00 pm to 8:00 p.m.  It all takes place at the Cessna Citation Service Center, One Citation Lane &#8211; 2121 S Hoover (1/2 mile north of K-42 on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kansasfoodbank.org/cessa-car-truck-bike-show-july-31-2010</link>
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		<title>Special Delivery!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official!  Our new Peterbuilt tractor and trailer has hit the road.  Our first delivery in it was today to the Eastern border of Central Kansas.  We delivered just over 26,000 pounds of food to agencies in Iola, Humbolt, Ft. Scott, Prescott and Pittsburg.  It can easily hold 18 pallates and has a refridgerated trailer with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kansasfoodbank.org/special-delivery</link>
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		<title>A WINNING HAND!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
The Kansas Food Bank held the winning hand at the first Annual Charity Poker Run on the Kansas International Dragway on June 6. Our Poker Run cash winnings amounted to $600 from entry fees and other payments from purchasing extra poker hands. Food contributions were received at the dragway site as well as at the 11 locations of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kansasfoodbank.org/a-winning-hand</link>
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		<title>Oreo To Launch Back to School Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This fall OREO will be asking their 5 million Facebook Fans to upload a Back to School photo and/or a written Back to School memory on the OREO Facebook page (Facebook.com/oreo). For each submission, OREO will donate $1 to the Feeding America BackPack Program, up to $25,000. Oreo is a Kraft/Nabisco brand. 
Program runs from August [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kansasfoodbank.org/oreo-to-launch-back-to-school-program</link>
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		<title>Thank you Aida&#8217;s !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aida’s was among retailers across the United States that joined Brighton in offering limited edition jewelry designed to help feed struggling Americans.  Brighton asked their retailers to nominate American Hero’s in their community who are feeding people.  The Kansas Food Bank was selected from among hundreds of entries that Brighton received because of the passion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kansasfoodbank.org/thank-you-aidas</link>
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		<title>Feed more children this summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Editorial, The Wichita Eagle

June 4, 2010

Given all the local job losses, it&#8217;s not surprising that area food pantries have seen increased demand. But it&#8217;s troubling that so many of those who are hungry are children — though it&#8217;s also encouraging that community groups and officials are working together to help feed more kids this summer.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kansasfoodbank.org/feed-more-children-this-summer</link>
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		<title>Few children ate free summer meals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rick Plumlee
The Wichita Eagle
June 2, 2010




The neediest children in Kansas have made very little use of the free meals offered each summer through a federal program.
Only 6.8 percent of the state&#8217;s children who are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches at public schools took advantage of the free meals during the summer of 2008, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kansasfoodbank.org/few-children-ate-free-summer-meals</link>
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		<title>As economy heals, families go hungry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY RICK PLUMLEE
The Wichita Eagle
June 2, 2010


Until a month ago, Lisa worked for a community service organization in El Dorado that helped those struggling to make ends meet. Then the grant money ran out, and the single mother of two teenagers was laid off. Now she needs help.


That&#8217;s what brought Lisa to the United Methodist&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kansasfoodbank.org/as-economy-heals-families-go-hungry</link>
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		<title>Free summer meals now available for children ages 18 and under</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Wichita
June 1 marked the beginning of the Federal Summer Meals Program in Wichita. More than 34,500 children receive free and reduced priced meals during the school year because of their family income falling at or below 185% of the poverty level. Free meals are also available in the summer, but getting hungry kids to the table is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kansasfoodbank.org/outside-wichita-learn-where-kids-eat-free</link>
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