Fall 2009 Food Bank Harvest Newsletter

The Fall 2009 newsletter is now available for download. Click here to get a copy (PDF, 1.9 MB) and read about all of our latest news and events.

2008 Annual Report

The 2008 annual report is now available for download. Click here to get a copy (PDF, 675 KB) and read about this year's events.

Food Bank Grateful for Gardener's Bumper Crop, Director Says August 17, 2004

A local gardener who prefers to be anonymous should be crowned the "Zucchini King."

This master gardener has already donated a ton of zucchini this summer to the Fairbanks Community Food Bank. That's a ton as in truckloads of 250 pounds, delivered two times a week for the past month.
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Students Serve Up Annual Thank You for Volunteers November 27, 2003

On Wednesday morning, 18-year-old David McCauley was doing the mashed potato, not to music but with a wire whisk, whipping up some of the 40 pounds of boiled spuds prepared by students at the Career Education Center.

Peeling potatoes, chopping onions, roasting turkeys, serving salad and pouring juice becomes part of the volunteer curriculum for CES students every Thanksgiving.

For the past five years, the alternative high school, located above the Fairbanks Community Food Bank, has prepared a holiday meal for Food Bank and community volunteers who hand out Thanksgiving food boxes to those in need.
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Turkey Donations Increase November 24, 2003
"We guarantee food to eat," Kirstein said, "but we don't guarantee (whole) turkeys." Many of the turkey donations are half turkeys or turkey pieces. "We also have some wonderful pot roast meals," Kirstein added.

For the past few years, 600 food boxes have been put together for the event. However, this year, volunteers are preparing an extra 100 boxes because of the higher food demand the Food Bank has experienced over the past 12 months.

"The needs this year have been extraordinarily high," Kirstein said. "We've served 3,000 more people in the last 12 months than the previous 12 months."
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Filling a need by filling a backpack June 18, 2002
No one should have to go hungry, but certainly not children who are forced to try to learn and grow –– or just enjoy summer –– on an empty stomach.
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Snack-filled packs ready for needy kids June 17, 2002
A novel weapon in the war on hunger is being used in Fairbanks this summer –– backpacks. The Fairbanks Community Food Bank has teamed up with Joel's Place, a faith-based youth center, to distribute backpacks containing snacks to young people in need.
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From sharecropping to the Internet June 3, 2002
How do you even begin to describe R.G. Bouchum? Do you start with his childhood, telling how the 85-year-old grew up the son of East Texas sharecroppers? How he dropped out midway through elementary school to help support his eight brothers and sisters?
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