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The annual Stuff-A-Truck campaign began Wednesday morning with collections from many schools in the area. Solway Elementary School second- graders Mayor Gbala, left, and MacKenzie Steinmetz carry out a box of donated items from their class for the Bemidji Food Shelf. Monte Draper | Bemidji Pioneer

Donations help Bemidji Community Food Shelf

BEMIDJI — For the 21st consecutive year, youngsters from local schools began the process of stuffing a truck with donations to the Bemidji Community Food Shelf on Wednesday. More students...

news / local Thu, Nov 15, 2012 - 1:51am

Religious leaders trying to eat for a week on a food stamp budget

By Julie Siplem MPR News 91.3 FM MINNEAPOLIS — Could you eat on a food stamp budget? About a dozen Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders in Minnesota are joining others...

news / region Tue, Nov 13, 2012 - 12:05am

Red Lake tribal member Alvin Clark, left, sometimes comes to People's Church in Bemidji for meals, and he used to take shelter at the church when he was homeless. Tom Robertson | MPR News 91.3 FM

Rural counties struggle with poverty

By Tom Robertson, ,MPR News 91.3 FM BEMIDJI – When Alvin Clark needs a meal, he sometimes comes to the basement of the People’s Church, where poor people in Beltrami...

news / local Thu, Sep 13, 2012 - 11:47pm

Joanna McDuffie feeds a family of four on the food she gets from the food shelf at Northpoint Health and Wellness Center in Minneapolis. McDuffie says she's unemployed and gets assistance through Hennepin County. But she says food stamps often aren't enough, so she comes here when she runs out of food. Brandt Williams | MPR News 91.3 FM

State’s poverty rate remains stable

By Elizabeth Dunbar and Brandt Williams, MPR News 91.3 FM ST. PAUL – New census data showing Minnesota’s median household income improving by 10 percent from 2010 to 2011 may...

news Thu, Sep 13, 2012 - 11:19pm

Online auction aims to help deliver food to needy

BEMIDJI – The non-profit agency North Country Food Bank will be holding an online auction to raise funds for a new distribution trailer. The auction, open to the public from...

news / local Wed, Aug 15, 2012 - 1:38am