On May 14th, the Mon-tana Food Bank Network will host the 3rd annual Montana Hunger Relief Forum in Missoula. We have had several partners RSVP for this event and are still accepting confir-mations. The conference will be held on the Uni-versity of Montana cam-pus at the University Center from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. If you would like to attend, please contact Megan Hill at (800) 809-4752 Ext. 235 by Wednesday, May 12th at the

very latest. To learn more about the presentations and training sessions, please view the agenda included with this month’s Affiliate. We hope to see you there!

The MFBN to host the 3rd Annual Montana Hunger Relief Forum on May 14th in Missoula

Specials for May—Canned pears, Mixed Vegetables, and Crushed Tomatoes.

May 2010 Volume 10, Issue V

Points of Interest: ♦ New Procedure for

Scheduling Deliveries

♦ Regional Meeting in Billings

♦ Help Strengthen Child Nutrition Programs

♦ May’s Network Con-nection

♦ May Recipe—Vegetable Noodle Soup

Inside this issue:

Columbia Falls Mo-bile Food Pantry

2

Regional Meeting in Billings on May 27th

2

MFBN’s BBQ Ex-travaganza

2

Help Strengthen Child Nutrition Programs

3

Partner Agency Survey Results

3

May Delivery Schedule

4-5

Upcoming Events 5

May’s Recipe — Vegetable Noodle Soup

6

In an effort to provide MFBN partners more time to organize volunteers, fork-lifts, schedule pick-ups, and prepare storage space for monthly deliveries, we will now post all delivery times along with dates and routes. The delivery schedules will continue to be posted in the Affiliate and on our website www.insidemfbn.org at the beginning of each month. As a result of posting deliv-ery times at the beginning of the month, we will no longer be contacting you 24 hours in advance to sched-ule a time. If we are aware

that a delivery will arrive at a time different from the posted time, we will con-tact you to schedule a new delivery window. Please take a close look at this month’s delivery schedule to find out the day and time of your May delivery. If you have ques-tions, please feel free to contact Megan Hill, Jeff Gutierrez, Michael Gard-ner or Rob Shipley. Thank you for your coop-eration and we hope you all benefit from the new procedure.

Delivery Dates and Times Now Available at the Beginning of Each Month

It’s time to stock up on canned fruits and vegeta-bles! Our warehouse is chock-full of pears in vanilla syrup (I5085), mixed vegeta-bles (I5083), and crushed tomatoes (I5113) ready to give your clients a hearty boost of vitamins. These items are listed at the top of your white inventory re-

quest forms so be sure to add some to your monthly or-der. Pears and mixed veggies are available for $2.16 for a box of 12 cans, and crushed tomatoes for $4.68

for a box of 24 cans. You can use the mixed vegetables and crushed tomatoes with some of our Montana pasta bites to make a tasty and healthy soup! Check out our May recipe on the back page to see how!

Smiles were in abun-dance during the Mobile Food Pantry distribution in Columbia Falls on April 23rd. We were able to distribute 11,918 pounds of food to 155 households in just 3 hours. The MFBN would like to thank the 28 vol-unteers from Fresh Life Church of Whitefish, the Columbia Falls Food Bank, the North Valley Community Center, and the Flathead County Health Department for their great work! The dis-tribution provided food to 567 individuals in Co-lumbia Falls and the sur-rounding area.

Join the MFBN for a Wonderful Networking Opportunity at the Billings Regional Meeting on May 27th!

lenges, learn more about MFBN’s initiatives for 2010 and how you can become involved, and learn about ways to pro-vide your clients with more nutritious foods and gain access to nutrition resources. Invitations to this Regional Meeting will be sent to all partners in the following counties: Yellowstone, Musselshell, Stillwater, Big Horn, Car-bon, Fergus, Rosebud, Sweet Grass, Wheatland,

On May 27th from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., the Montana Food Bank Net-work will host a Regional Meeting in Billings at Family Service, Inc., 1824 1st Avenue North. The Regional Meeting is great way to meet other part-ners of the Network and participate in open discus-sions regarding current events surrounding food insecurity in your area. Join us as we find solu-tions to operational chal-

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and Gallatin. If you would like to attend this meeting, please RSVP to Megan Hill at (800) 809-4752 Ext. 235 or Jeff Gutierrez at Ext. 232. To view the agenda, please log on to www.insidemfbn.org. Our next Regional Meeting will take place in Miles City on Wednesday, June 6th. Details will follow as we move closer to the date.

Please join Big Sky Brewing and the Mon-tana Food Bank Net-work on Saturday, June 12th, 2010 from 3:00 p.m. till 9:00 p.m. at Big Sky Brewing Company in Missoula for a good eatin’ ex-travaganza! The BBQ Festival will feature barbeque artists from Famous Dave’s, Finn & Porter, Long Riders

BBQ, Mullan Station, Outback Steakhouse, and more. The festival will also welcome several lo-cal bands including Tom Catmull and the Clerics, County Line, Russ Nas-set and Revelators, and Zeppo MT. So come out to our neighborhood to eat, drink, and dance to help the Montana Food Bank Network fight hunger and feed hope!

Big Sky Brewing Com-pany is located across the field from the MFBN at 5417 Trumpeter Way in Missoula. So don’t miss this great opportunity to support the Montana Food Bank Network and help raise awareness about all the great work we are all doing in Mon-tana! We hope to see you there.

MFBN Invites all Partners to Join Us for a BBQ Extravaganza!

Columbia Falls Community Comes Together for Mobile Food Pantry

MFBN is working on strengthening our Child Nutrition Programs by asking our congressman to support program improve-ments and increased fund-ing. Improvements would increase access to the pro-grams as well as improve nutritional quality of food. We are requesting your help with this. We are circulating a petition for anyone to sign. We encour-age all staff and volunteers of partner agencies to sign the petition and that you ask your clients to sign to support Child Nutrition Programs as well. Child Nutrition Pro-grams include WIC (Women, Infants and Chil-dren program for pregnant women and children under 5 years of age), School Nu-trition Programs, Summer Food Service Program,

Afterschool meals, the Child and Adult Care Food Program (serving children in child cares). Please make the petition available for your clients to sign and encourage oth-ers in your community to sign on as well. Signed petitions will be sent to our Congressional offices. Please fax or mail signed petitions to Kate Devino, Public Policy Director no later than June 4, 2010.

Fax: 406-542-3770 Mail: Montana Food Bank Network, 5625 Ex-pressway Missoula, MT 59808 Thank you for your help with this very important effort! Please contact Kate Devino if you have any questions: kdevino@mfbn.org or 800-809-4752 ext. 231

you loud and clear and are seeking to improve our ser-vices based on your input. One of the biggest themes of this year’s survey results was nutrition, in terms of product as well as training, information, and resources. Here are some examples of the importance of nutrition to our Partner Agencies: What snacks would you like to see on our inven-tory more frequently? 91% of respondents indicated that “healthy snacks” are their preference. What bread would you like

Help Strengthen Child Nutrition Programs by Asking Clients to Sign a Petition

Partner Agency Survey Results—Focus on Nutrition

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to see on our inventory more often? Over 75% of respondents chose whole wheat bread over all other options. What vegetables would you like to see on our in-ventory more fre-quently? When given the options of fresh, frozen, and canned, the response was a resounding “yes please” to all, with each of the three choices reaching over 60% of respondents. But teaching your clients nutrition is not limited to just having healthy food on hand. As many clients are unfamiliar with nutritional information, 60% of re-spondents stated that they regularly provide clients with nutritional or dietary information. While this is a pretty decent percentage, we want to it to be even higher. To help accom-plish this, we asked respon-dents to indicate what would be the best way to spread the information - 71% said that recipe cards would be met with the best response, and 60% thought that nutritional brochures would be of the most bene-fit. Several Partner Agen-cies also requested more recipes in The Affiliate each month so we will be working hard to provide you with additional materi-als and suggestions for tasty treats that are also actually good for you!

The results of the Montana Food Bank Network 2010 Partner Agency Survey are all in! We’d like to send a big “Thank you” to everyone who took the time to com-plete the survey and are happy that we received a lot of very positive feedback. We hear

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As per previous advisement, effective May 2010, staff from the Montana Food Bank Network will no longer be

calling a day ahead of scheduled delivery to schedule delivery times, rather, all delivery times will be pub-lished online and in the Affiliate concurrently to scheduled delivery dates. Please understand that this is part of a continuing effort to manage MFBN resources so that we can provide all Partner Agencies with the most useful and efficient services possible. If for any reason your scheduled delivery time changes from what has been published, MFBN staff will notify you immediately. Date Time City Partner Agency 11-May 10:00-10:30 Stevensville—Pantry Partners 11-May 10:45-11:00 Victor—Victor School’s Back Pack 11-May 11:15-11:30 Victor—House of Praise 11-May 11:45-12:00 Hamilton—Bitterroot Valley Calvary Chapel 11-May 12:15-1:00 Hamilton—Haven House, WMMHC West House 11-May 1:30-2:00 Darby—Darby Bread Basket 13-May 10:00-10:30 Bozeman—Gallatin Valley Food Bank, Gardiner, BSYC, West Yellowstone, YSSC, Head Waters 13-May 12:30-1:00 Helena—Helena Food Share, Helena Pre-Release, Montana Youth Homes, Elkhorn Treatment Facility, Transitional Living Facility, Rocky Mtn Development Council 13-May 10:45-11:00 Livingston—Livingston Food Pantry 13-May 12:30-1:00 White Sulphur Springs—Meagher Country Nutrition Coalition 13-May 3:30-4:15 Lewistown—Central Montana Community Cupboard, B/G of Lewistown, FCCOA 13-May 5:45-6:15 Roundup—Musselshell County Food Bank 14-May 7:15-8:00 Billings—Family Services, Alternatives/Passages 14-May 9:15-9:45 Laurel—Community Hope 14-May 10:15-10:30 Joliet—The Joliet Food Pantry 14-May 11:00-11:15 Columbus—Project Hope 14-May 12:00-12:30 Big Timber—Big Timber Community Food Bank 18-May 9:00-9:30 Thompson Falls—Community Harvest, Thompson Falls Seniors, Gospel Mountain AOG 18-May 10:00-10:30 Trout Creek—Trout Creek Seniors, Open Gate Ranch Youth Group 18-May 10:45-11:30 Noxon—Community Services Fellowship, Noxon Seniors, Heron Seniors 18-May 12:15-12:45 Troy—Troy Food Pantry, The Food Cupboard 18-May 1:00-1:15 Troy—Troy Community Baptist Church Food Pantry 18-May 1:45-2:30 Libby— Libby Food Pantry, Libby Seniors, Libby Christian Church, Kootenai Valley Head Start 19-May 8:30-9:00 Dillon—Beaverhead Community Food Pantry 19-May 10:30-11:00 Butte— Butte Emergency Food Bank 19-May 11:00-11:30 Butte— Butte Rescue Mission 19-May 12:15-12:45 Anaconda—Project Care, Discovery House 19-May 1:30-1:45 Maxville—Face to Face Food Pantry 20-May 8:30-9:30 Great Falls—Great Falls Community Food Bank, Salvation Army, Fish, St. Vincent DePaul 20-May 10:30-11:00 Choteau—Teton County Food Pantry 20-May 11:45-12:00 Conrad—Pondera Food Pantry 20-May 1:15-1:45 Browning—Blackfeet Food Bank 21-May 8:00-8:15 Alberton—Alberton Seniors 21-May 8:15-8:30 Alberton—Alberton Community Food Pantry 21-May 9:00-9:30 Superior—Community Food Bank of Mineral County, Superior Seniors 21-May 10:30-11:30 Plains—Plains Community Food Bank, Shekinah Kitchen, Hot Springs Food Pantry, Plains-Paradise Seniors

25-May 8:00-8:15 St. Ignatius—St. Ignatius Seniors 25-May 8:15-8:30 St. Ignatius—Mission Valley Food Pantry 25-May 9:00-9:30 Ronan—Ronan Bread Basket 25-May 9:45-10:00 Polson—Polson Seniors

May Delivery Schedule

Please join the MFBN for the monthly Partner Agency conference call on Wednesday, May 19th at 2:00 p.m.

Topic: “Creating a Statewide Partner Agency Council” This month the MFBN would like hear your thoughts about starting a statewide Partner Agency Council. The council would be composed of individuals from across the state to help the MFBN address issues and trends in the emergency food system. Please take the time to join us as we discuss this new idea and help us find ways to get the project off the ground. We en-courage everyone that can, to participate in the call. To participate in the conference call: Dial 866.740.1260 Enter your access code: 7213855

Upcoming Events/Updates

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May Delivery Schedule continued…

SNAP Application Work-shop for Service Providers: Area service providers are invited to attend a SNAP Application Workshop in Chester on June 1st. At the workshop, we will cover the details of the SNAP appli-cation, options to apply, current eligibility guidelines, and more. Come increase your understanding of SNAP so that you can pass this information on to the clients you serve!

Chester, MT: What: SNAP Application Workshop When: Tuesday, June 1st, 12:00pm-3:00pm Where: Chester Assembly of God Church, 411 3rd St. W.

SNAP Outreach and Application Assistance at the Chester Health Fair: We will be at the Chester Health Fair on June 2nd offer-ing information on SNAP as well as providing on-site application assistance. If you are in the Liberty County area, please let your clients know about this opportu-nity!

Chester, MT: What: SNAP Outreach at the Chester Health Fair When: Wednesday, June 2nd, 8:00am-1:00pm Where: The old gymnasium at Chester-Joplin-Inverness School

For more information: Contact Lorianne Burhop at 1

-800-809-4752 x230 or lburhop@mfbn.org

SNAP Outreach in Liberty County!

May 19th @ 10:00 a.m.—The Network Connection

25-May 10:00-10:30 Polson—Polson Loaves and Fish

Food Pantry 25-May 11:15-11:45 Lakeside—Westshore Food Bank 25-May 12:30-1:00 Columbia Falls—Columbia Falls

Food Bank 25-May 1:30-2:00 Whitefish—North Valley Food Bank, Whitefish Four Square

Church 25-May 3:00-3:45 Eureka—Tobacco Valley Food Pantry, Eureka Four Square

Church, Tobacco Valley Seniors 26-May 2:00-2:15 Hardin—Helping Hand of Har

din 27-May 7:15-8:15 Miles City—Custer County Food

Bank 27-May 9:45-10:00 Glendive—Dawson County Food Bank, Boys and Girls Club of Daw

son County 27-May 11:00-11:15 Sidney—Boys and Girls Club of

Richland County 27-May 12:00-12:30 Culbertson—Culbertson Food

Bank 27-May 1:15-1:30 Poplar—New Life Mission 27-May 2:00-3:00 Wolf Point—Point Thrift Store &

Food Bank, Wolf Point Seniors 27-May 3:00-3:15 Wolf Point—Basket of Hope 27-May 4:15-4:30 Glasgow—Valley County COA 27-May 4:30-5:00 Glasgow—Valley Community

Food Bank 27-May 6:30-7:00 Malta—Malta Food Bank 27-May 9:30-10:30 Kalispell Flathead Food Bank, Church 29 Food Pantry, Lighthouse Christian Home, Sa

maritan House 27-May 10:45-11:00 Kalispell—N.W. MT. Veterans

Stand Down 28-May 8:00-8:15 Harlem—Harlem Food Pantry 28-May 8:45-9:15 Chinook—Chinook Food Pantry 28-May 9:45-10:30 Havre—Havre Food Bank, Feed My Sheep, Boys and Girls of the Hi

-Line 28-May 11:00-11:30 Seeley Lake—Seeley-Swan Food

Bank 1-Jun TBD Missoula—Missoula agencies begin scheduled

pick ups

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MISSION

Working to eliminate hunger in Montana through food acquisi-tion and distribution, education,

and advocacy.

VISION Building a unified force to address hunger in Montana.

The Montana Food Bank Network 5625 Expressway

Missoula, MT 59808

Phone: 406-721-3825 800-809-4752

Fax: 406-542-3770 agencyinfo@mfbn.org

Log on to our website!

www.insidemfbn.org

Find more recipes at www.insidemfbn.org/

recipes

Nutrition Facts Recipe makes 10 servings Calories 165 Calories from Fat 48 (8%)

Amount Per Serving %DV

Total Fat 5.3 g 8%

Saturated Fat 0.9g 4%

Cholesterol 0 mg 0%

Sodium 880 mg 35%

Potassium 454 mg 13%

Total Carbohydrate 24.1g 8%

Dietary Fiber 5.4g 22%

Sugars 4.3g

Protein 6.1g Vitamin A 15%

Vitamin C 30% Calcium 6%Iron 25%*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

Directions

1. In a large pot over medium heat, sauté the celery and onion in the oil for 5 to 10 minutes, or until onions are tender. Add the broth, crushed tomatoes and to-mato-vegetable juice cocktail.

2. Bring to a boil, add the pasta, reduce heat to low and simmer for 20 minutes, or until the pasta is tender. 3. Add the mixed vegetables and the corn and bring the soup back to a boil. Then reduce the heat to low and allow the soup to simmer for 15 more minutes.

Ingredients: 2 stalks celery, chopped 1 onion, chopped 3 tablespoons oil 6 cups vegetable or chicken broth 1 (14.5 ounce) can crushed tomatoes 1 ½ cups (12 fluid ounces) tomato or tomato-vegetable juice cocktail 1 cup (8 ounces) uncooked pasta bites

May’s Recipe - Vegetable Noodle Soup

Executive Director Peggy Grimes x225 Executive Assistant Gina McCrary x239 Director of Development Mark Brennan x228 Development Manager Kathryn McCleerey x244 Development Coordinator Sarah Black x229 Development Assistant Tirzah Juskalian x252 Director of Finance Paul Tripp x224 Accountant Clark Tower x223 Director of Operations Michael Gardner x233 Transportation Manager Rob Shipley x240 Food Resource Developer James Dodge x226 Purchasing & Inventory Control Manager Bob Spencer x251 Inventory Control Coordinator Stacey Grimes x222 Agency Relations Manager Megan Hill x235 Agency Relations & Volunteer Coordinator Jeff Gutierrez x232 Warehouse Manager Randy Neel x234 Warehouse Staff Cory Simmons x237 Miles City Warehouse Laramie McMillan 874- 5625 Director of Public Policy Kate Bradford x231 Public Policy Manager Bernadette Gunn x227 SNAP Outreach Coordinator Lorianne Burhop x230 Community Outreach Coordinator Emily Dunklee x250

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