{"id":83046,"date":"2015-11-14T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T18:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=83046"},"modified":"2015-11-16T09:57:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T15:57:26","slug":"kids-against-hunger-nearing-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=83046","title":{"rendered":"Kids Against Hunger package 212,000 meals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Kiwanis Club\u2019s &#8220;Kids Against Hunger,&#8221; is in the fifth year, with food to be distributed locally and around the world. \u00a0Kiwanis called for volunteers to help package 200,000 meals &#8211; and\u00a0 <strong>212,000 <\/strong>total meals were packaged, a new record.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"text-align: center;\">2015 Photos for CSiNewsNOW.com by Matt Sheppard<\/pre>\n<p>[easyrotator]erc_61_1447541441[\/easyrotator]<\/p>\n<p>There were close to 300 volunteers, on Saturday\u00a0at Stutsman Harley Davidson, for the morning session, packing 116,000 meals, and in the afternoon, 220 volunteers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kids Against Hunger packages and sends meals consisting of vegetables, vitamins, rice and soy for starving children in the U.S. and abroad. Meal recipients need only to add water and boil the dried ingredients for 20 minutes. Meals are distributed internationally as well as locally through Great Plains Food Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The club was able to reach their $50,000 goal thanks to donations and an anonymous donor. The funds raised purchased the ingredients needed to package the meals. The international meals will be sent to Africa for the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Previously reported:<\/p>\n<p>The two shifts are: <strong>9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.<\/strong> At prior events, volunteers attended in groups from churches, schools, service clubs and families including but not limited to Litchville-Marion, Devils Lake, Medina and Steele youth groups, church groups from St. Paul\u2019s United Methodist, Atonement Lutheran, Church of Latter Day Saints, Immanuel Lutheran and St. James Basilica as well as sports teams from the University of Jamestown.<\/p>\n<p>Kids Against Hunger packages and sends meals consisting of vegetables, vitamins, rice and soy for starving children in the U.S. and abroad. Meal recipients need only to add water and boil the dried ingredients for 20 minutes. Meals are distributed internationally as well as locally through Great Plains Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Jamestown\u2019s Kids Against Hunger event, to donate to the cause or to volunteer email \u00a0<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"mailto:JamestownKiwanis@gmail.com\">JamestownKiwanis@gmail.com<\/a>, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>or go to the Jamestown Kids Against Hunger\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JamestownKiwanis\">Facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Kiwanis Club\u2019s &#8220;Kids Against Hunger,&#8221; is in the fifth year, with food to be distributed locally and around the world. \u00a0Kiwanis called for volunteers to help package 200,000 meals &#8211; and\u00a0 212,000 total meals were packaged, a new record. 2015 Photos for CSiNewsNOW.com by Matt Sheppard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":87554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-csicelebrations","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83046"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87617,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83046\/revisions\/87617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}