The Arkansas Rice Federation will donate 240,000 pounds of rice to the Arkansas Food Bank, Jeff Rutledge, a rice producer from Newport, announced Wednesday.
The Arkansas Rice Federation will donate 240,000 pounds of rice to the Arkansas Food Bank, Jeff Rutledge, a rice farmer from Newport, announced Wednesday.
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ELKINS A longtime community organizer is currently scouring the area in hopes of finding a location to distribute food to families in need.
Mill Creek resident Harvey Taylor came before the Randolph County Commission in hopes of finding a place for the Feed America Food Bank to park a semi tractor-and-trailer and hand out boxes of food.
Taylor said the Food Bank has already made some distributions to county residents at the 4-H Camp in Beverly, but recent snow and rain has made the ground there unsuitable for that purpose at the present time.
“I’ve been trying to get the food back from the Food Bank and I have a lot of people in the public willing to help,” Taylor told the commission. “The problem is that we’re having trouble trying to find a place to distribute it.