{"id":183256,"date":"2019-10-26T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=183256"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:17:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T15:17:27","slug":"kiwanis-meal-packaging-event-oct-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=183256","title":{"rendered":"Over 62,000 meals packaged by Kiwanis Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-183257\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Kids-against-Hunger-2019-6-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Kids-against-Hunger-2019-6-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Kids-against-Hunger-2019-6-768x509.jpg 768w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Kids-against-Hunger-2019-6-1024x678.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Kids-against-Hunger-2019-6-264x175.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"dateline\"><strong>JAMESTOWN, N.D. (Valley News Live) &#8212; <\/strong><\/span> The flood fight continues in Jamestown as some people are scrambling even to make it across town. Some families are having a hard time getting the essentials of food. On Saturday, a local organization made nearly $63,000 meals to make sure no one goes hungry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We added the beans, and then we added the vegetables,&#8221; said Kiwanis member Rilie Wolf. \u00a0Rilie has an exciting job for being 9-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To me, it&#8217;s heartbreaking,&#8221; said Rilie. &#8220;We have so much, and they have so little.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s helping out her neighbors in Jamestown.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy img img-responsive initial loaded alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/media.graytvinc.com\/images\/690*395\/meals2.PNG\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"175\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.graytvinc.com\/images\/690*395\/meals2.PNG\" data-was-processed=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know people that are flooded,&#8221; said Rilie. &#8220;My classmates are flooded.<span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been ten years since we&#8217;ve had a flood like this, which is not that long of a time,&#8221; said Kiwanis member Katie Ryan-Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>Rilie and Katie are both apart of Kiwanis and making meals for families that need it.<\/p>\n<p>They tell me they donate these meals across the state, including Moorhead, but Jamestown, in particular, needs your help more than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Each meal is a quarter, and one of them can feed six people.<\/p>\n<div id=\"gdm-ad-728x90-A\" class=\"gdm-ad\" data-google-query-id=\"CMGj7Ia9u-UCFVw7TwodvwcLeg\">\u00a0&#8220;I live out of town, and when I drive to work, I see the corn in the field and the soybeans in the field and I just know that that&#8217;s someone annual salary and if I didn&#8217;t have my annual salary, how would I feed my family?&#8221; said Katie.<\/div>\n<p>The meals are simple to make.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All they have to do is add it to boiling water, so even if you&#8217;re Rilie&#8217;s age, you can assemble this meal,&#8221; said Katie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish that everybody could have something like food and money,&#8221; said Rilie.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the organization has packed 1.3 million meals for families in their eight years.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JamestownKiwanis\/\">The Jamestown Kiwanis Facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously..<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Kiwanis Club &amp; 250 volunteers are packaging 64,000 meals to benefit the Great Plains Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown Kiwanis Club President CJ Hager, says \u00a0&#8220;Kiwanis Against Hunger allows us to fill those tiny tummies &#8211; and it only costs 25 cents per meal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The location is <\/strong>Stutsman Harley Davidson, in Jamestown, from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Oct. 26<\/p>\n<p>Nearly one out of seven North Dakota families is food insecure. The Great Plains Food Bank served 97,000 individuals last year alone. Last year&#8217;s KAH meals were gone of the shelves within a couple of weeks. Meals cost 25 cents and stay within North Dakota and Clay County, Minn. The club raised $16,000 to pack 64,000 meals. In its eight years of packing meals, Jamestown Kiwanis has raised $276,000 and packed 1.2 million meals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMESTOWN, N.D. (Valley News Live) &#8212; The flood fight continues in Jamestown as some people are scrambling even to make it across town. Some families are having a hard time getting the essentials of food. 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