WDAY reported that it’s estimated that 375 individuals filled around 130,000 bags on Saturday.

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown Kiwanis Club is excited to be holding their eighth food packing event for Kids Against Hunger and look forward to the opportunity to feed starving families across the region. Since the Kiwanis Club started the project they have packed over 1.1 million meals for those in need.

Once again, they are partnering with the Great Plains Food Bank to distribute the meals to those in need across North Dakota and parts of Western Minnesota.  In 2017 Great Plains Food Bank used up their donation of 100,000 meals within six months.

Jamestown Kiwanis Club board member, Tim Perkins says, “Food stamps only go so far.  We do this for the kids. Every year, when we talk about hungry children, Kiwanis says ‘we won’t stand for that.’ And every year, the community supports us. Jamestown is a kind and generous community.”

On a recent, Wayne Byers Show, on CSi Cable 2, Jamestown Kiwanis Club member Michelle Watne said, the next packing event is Saturday, November 3, from 9-a.m., to 12-noon, at Stutsman Harley Davidson in Jamestown, with the goal to pack another 80,000 meals.  Each meal costs only 25¢, so gifts small or large make a big difference.

The meals of soy, rice, dehydrate vegetables, containing 21 essential vitamins are distributed throughout North Dakota and Minnesota through the Great Plains Food Bank.

Families need only to add boiling water to make the meal.

Donations can be made at First Community Credit Union, on the Jamestown Kiwanis Facebook page,  www.Facebook.com/JamestownKiwanis or email JamestownKiwnais@gmail.com.   www.gofundme.com/kids-against-hunger-2018, or directly to any Kiwanis member.

The Kiwanis greatly appreciates donation, and so will the families that you’re helping to feed.

Those unable to donate funds for the food, may consider donating their time. Approximately 300 volunteers will be needed to help package the meals.

The Kiwanis Club thanks Stutsman Harley Davidson for sharing their space with for the packaging event, yet again. AND to those that have already generously donated or volunteered to feed hungry families.