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AREA BUSINESSES AND COMMUNITY GROUPS PROVIDE FOOD DURING HOLIDAY SEASON (continued) The food items collected were used by member agencies to pack holiday food boxes and/or provide special holiday meals for the clients they serve. There is a great demand at holiday time for additional food as there is an increase in the people utilizing our member agencies. Many families are faced with added expenses at the holiday time and need help in providing enough food for the month. Our thanks to Nucor Steel, Eaton Corporation, Blue Cross Blue Shield Employees, Mississippi College School of Law, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Watkins Elementary Girl Scout Troop No. 36, Smith Elementary Gifted Students, Smith Barney, University Christian School, Nissan, Smoothie King, Unipres SE, Residents of the Carleton Apartments, and Captain D’s.
2007 HUNGER’S HERO AWARD ANNOUNCED (continued)
We appreciate the generosity and commitment of the Ameristar Team Members to Mississippi Food Network. Together we are fighting to relieve poverty-related hunger in Mississippi. EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT - CASSANDRA GUESS (Continued)
As Program
Director, Cassandra is responsible for managing the Kids Cafe located at the
Boys & Girls Clubs of Washington County in Greenville, MS. She works closely
with their staff to plan the menus, order the food, collect data for reporting,
and making sure that the children have a nutritious meal every day during the
week. I MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS SPONSOR POTATO DROP (Continued) The first-ever potato drop held on campus was part of the network’s on-going effort to distribute donated produce to food pantries across the state. At the Palmeiro Center parking lot, students stuffed the potatoes into 10-pound bags in less than 90 minutes and loaded them onto the network’s truck headed back to Jackson. “To give up a few hours that I would have wasted sleeping wasn’t a big deal,” said Jessica Ayers of Gulfport, a junior majoring in risk management, insurance and financial planning. The truck driver was back on the road well before 9 a.m., which made the experience even more satisfying for Chiquita Briley, assistant Extension professor in the Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion. According to Chiquita
Briley, who coordinated the event to promote the involvement of the College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences in "Universities Fighting World Hunger, students
are already asking me when the next potato drop will be. Briley is adviser to
the “MSU Committee of 19,” a stu
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were delighted to present the 2007 Hunger’s Hero Award to the Team Members of
the Ameristar Casino in Vicksburg. For the past three years, the Team Members
have donated a tremendous amount of money to the Mississippi Food Network
through the Ameristar Cares Workplace Giving Campaign. Each year employees
designate money to be donated to non-profit agencies through payroll deduction.
The Ameristar corporate office then matches dollar for dollar the employees
donations. 
n addition, she coordinates the CLUB (Children Learning and
Understanding Better) Nutrition classes with member agencies of Mississippi Food
Network to help teach children, ages 9-13, about making better food choices,
eating healthier and exercising. Utilizing the OrganWise Guys curriculum, the
children learn about eating foods that are low fat and high fiber, drinking lots
of water rather than soda, and getting plenty of exercise. In February,
Cassandra will also be starting a backpack program that will provide the
children in the program with a pack of food each Friday that they can take home
to help ensure they do not go hungry during the weekend when they don’t have
access to free breakfast and lunches at school. Cassandra has been with
Mississippi Food Network for five years. 
dent organization that plans to work with the
Society of St. Andrew and other charitable groups to conduct a “War on Hunger”
campaign of education, research and outreach. “We sponsored the potato drop to
raise awareness that there are children and families in this state who grapple
with nutritious food not being available to sustain a healthy life,” Briley
said. Two MSU alumni, Tim Edmondson of Edmondson Farms in Vardaman and
Bill Wooten of Missi-ana Produce, Inc. in Bruce, sent a dump truck with donated
sweet potatoes from their operation. The network’s rig carried 15,000 pounds of
the bagged potatoes for distribution to soup kitchens and food banks. Several
student organizations personally delivered 5,000 pounds to food pantries in the
Golden Triangle and Tupelo area. 
