ST. CLAIRSVILLE Thanks to the help of local businesses, several local food pantries are receiving a helping hand. Five buyers purchased market hogs at the
ST. CLAIRSVILLE Belmont County school children in need of some help will be heading back to school with new clothes this fall as the Belmont County Departme
Four individuals who have made significant contributions to agriculture and Farm Bureau were honored by the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation Dec. 9 in Columbus at th
By Rick McNary, vice president of Strategic Partnerships for The Outreach ProgramI didn’t think they could do it, but they proved me wrong. I was so sure the Belmont County Farm Bureau would not hit their goal of packaging 22,222 bags of meals for their school’s Backpack Program, that I was already scheduling a truck to pick up the unused ingredients. But I underestimated the power of one man with a vision and the power of farmers to unite a community to care for its own. I
May 1, 2021
BARNESVILLE Belmont County Farm Bureau is raising funds to provide packaged meals to be used by four schools in Belmont County that have expressed a need.
The school districts are Barnesville, Bellaire, St. Clairsville and Union Local. This backpack food program provides food for needy students to take home for the weekend. To date, a total of $18,285 has been donated by 80 businesses, organizations and individuals. With five weeks remaining until the June 1 deadline, the farm bureau is reminding everyone there is still time to make a donation.
Organizers said 100 percent of the donations will be used to purchase bulk ingredients from the nonprofit group The Outreach Program. Each of the two different vitamin and mineral fortified, protein rich, hot meal varieties contain six servings, with a cost of $1.80 per meal. The meals to be distributed are macaroni and cheese dinner made with real cheese, and apple cinnamon oatmeal. A donation of $100 would provide 333 servi