via The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON — Marshall University and The Pottery Place are once again teaming up to offer the popular Empty Bowls fundraiser event to benefit Facing Hunger Foodbank. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the event — typically a soup lunch where attendees choose their own handmade bowl to purchase and keep — moved online
via The Herald-Dispatch After a winter break, Facing Hunger Foodbank is restarting its mobile food distribution in February. After a year of utilizing the mobile distribution sites even more than normal, Facing Hunger’s executive director Cyndi Kirkhart said she hopes the sites will continue to help get food on tables in West Virginia, Ohio and
via Herald-Dispatch Rotary Park in Huntington was bustling with activity Saturday as disc golf players participated in a fundraiser for a local food bank. Nearly 150 participants were registered for the Ice Bowl disc golf tournament, one of the largest annual fundraisers benefiting Facing Hunger Foodbank in Huntington. Players took turns throwing a disc from
Observed each year on the third Monday in January, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service to encourage all Americans to volunteer to improve their communities. Huntington Mayor Steve Williams says while many individuals and workers in the city take that day to volunteer, he
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HUNTINGTON — While many need to use emergency funding provided by the federal government last week to pay bills or get groceries, one Huntington man donated his federal stimulus check for the second time to help those who are hungry. Shannon Harshbarger, American Legion Post 16 commander and a volunteer at Trinity Helping Hands food
Via The Daily Mail WV - Hunger stalks tens of thousands of people, young and old, in West Virginia. Feeding America, the nationwide network of food banks, estimates that 250,600 people in the state struggle with hunger every day. Of them, 73,770 are children. Food banks are an essential link in the effort to feed
As seen in the Herald-Dispatch on 11-26-20. For Cyndi Kirkhart, helping others is a way of life. Her career led her across the country before returning home to West Virginia where she serves the Tri-State area as the executive director of Facing Hunger Foodbank in Huntington. Backed by a team of volunteers and staff members,
AmazonSmile is a simple way for you to support Facing Hunger Food Bank every time you shop, at no cost to you. AmazonSmile is available at smile.amazon.com on your web browser and can be activated in the Amazon Shopping app for iOS and Android phones. When you shop at AmazonSmile, you’ll find the exact same low prices,
HUNTINGTON — Facing Hunger Foodbank will host an online fundraising auction, Halt Holiday Hunger, this weekend to help area families in need during the upcoming holidays. The auction will open at noon Friday, Oct. 30, and close at 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, at https://www.32auctions.com/facing-hunger-auction.com. All proceeds from the event will be used to help feed
