Monday, January 08, 2007

Charitable groups find providence after storm

Charitable groups find providence after storm: "Charitable groups find providence after storm

By GREG MILLER of the Tribune’s staff
Published Sunday, January 7, 2007

About a month before Christmas, it didn’t look good for the Central Missouri Food Bank. The 40,000-square-foot Vandiver Drive food storage area was less than one-fourth full, donations weren’t coming in and the agency was about $250,000 in debt.

Then people learned about its plight.

'I just call it a miracle,' said Peggy Kirkpatrick, the food bank’s executive director. 'Everything just started pouring in, literally"

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