November 23, 2011
A roundup of OFB's holiday season news coverage.
September 30, 2011
Battered sedans pull up at a downtown food pantry in this central Oregon town, bringing mothers, fathers and children. The families stream inside. Soon they emerge carrying cardboard boxes full of cereal, canned beans, fresh fruit and day-old bread. Each month, volunteers at the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Crook County food pantry send an average of 373 boxes out the door.
May 2, 2011
The Oregon Food Bank has opened a new building on the west side of the Portland metro area.
Food Bank CEO Rachel Bristol said at the ribbon-cutting she has mixed feelings about the charity's expansion, but that Oregon's hunger problem is still severe.
April 16, 2011
Off to the side of the House of Representatives chamber, as his colleagues debated whether the state school budget was too small or fatally too small, Rep. Mike McLane, R-Powell Butte, argued for the state spending some more money in another area. “I am going to fight to restore full funding for the Oregon Food Bank, and I’m going to argue with my colleagues,” said the freshman.
April 6, 2011
Organizing event focuses on Lincoln County Food System
Finding ways to put nutritious food on everyone's table by fully utilizing the local food system was the underlying premise of a Saturday workshop at Oregon Coast Community College in South Beach.
March 24, 2011
Oregon Food Bank worked with local schools to make sure kids on Spring Break didn't have to take a break from good food.
June 17, 2010
More than 500 summer meal sites across Oregon serve neighborhoods where at least half the families live on incomes that are at 50 percent of the federal poverty level. This summer, with a record number of Oregonians receiving public assistance, they expect to be busy. Summer meal providers are also watching Congress for votes on the reauthorization, and possible expansion, of federal nutrition programs.
June 13, 2010
At 6'4", holder of the U.S. House of Representatives free-throw record and representing a state where for 40 years the NBA has been the only major-league option, Ron Wyden often sees things in basketball terms.
Sometimes, that's even a useful way to look at things.
"I go to summer basketball programs and see kids being fed," the Oregon senator said Thursday, "and some of them won't eat again until they come back the next day."
May 22, 2010
There are a "whole lot of people" who visit the Clackamas Service Center "who are like me," said volunteer Anne Stevens.
She lost her job in 2008, her unemployment benefits have ended, her husband's wages were reduced by $2 an hour plus he had several furlough days, leaving them with $200 in monthly income after they pay their mortgage, Stevens said.
May 21, 2010
Child nutrition program advocates in Oregon are placing pressure on members of Congress to approve extending and boosting funding for five programs that provide thousands of children with nutritious food.
