by EthanF | Jun 17, 2024 | News
By Jenny Qi Major Jeff Strickler’s efforts to help fight hunger have touched thousands of lives in Mower County and beyond over his 40 years of service. Jeff Strickler always wanted to help people. After double-majoring in sociology and psychology in college, he...
by EthanF | Mar 27, 2024 | News
By Ethan Watters Mary Weikum has a lifetime of knowledge about food insecurity. Few people have a better understanding of food insecurity in Austin, Minnesota, than Mary Weikum. As the former director of Food Nutrition for the Austin Public Schools, she has seen...
by EthanF | Oct 16, 2023 | News
From the beginning of this initiative, it was clear that there was no singular cause for food insecurity in Mower County and there would be no singular solution. We needed to understand all of the complex facets of the issue as well as all of the resources at hand....
by EthanF | Feb 6, 2023 | News
And on Tuesday afternoon it received some high-powered help. Celebrity chef and motivational speaker Carla Hall visited Hormel Foods World Headquarters to help pack food for the Hometown Food Security Project’s backpack program, a coalition of groups working locally...
by EthanF | Aug 2, 2022 | Events
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