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Facing Hunger Foodbank Celebrates 40 years of service
HUNTINGTON — Facing Hunger Foodbank hosted its “Time After Time ‘80s Extravaganza” Saturday night, celebrating its 40th anniversary and raising funds for two expansion projects that will improve accessibility to people with food insecurities and end multi-generational...
Lawmakers visit Facing Hunger Foodbank to learn, volunteer
HUNTINGTON — Facing Hunger Foodbank welcomed West Virginia legislators Sunday for a tour and to prepare food boxes. The legislators received a tour of the Facing Hunger Foodbank facility and helped pack boxes of food items for upcoming mobile distributions. They also...
Volunteers paint mural on front of Facing Hunger Foodbank during United Way of the River Cities’ 2023 Week of Action
HUNTINGTON — More than 10 volunteers painted a new mural on the front of Facing Hunger Foodbank in Huntington on Thursday as part of United Way of the River Cities’ 2023 Week of Action. Starting at 9 a.m., the volunteers painted a variety of fruits and vegetables,...
Facing Hunger undergoes expansion, to add learning kitchen and on-site food pantry
HUNTINGTON — Since 2015, the old Southern States store building on 7th Avenue has sat vacant. Over the next year, Facing Hunger Foodbank will turn the space into a teaching kitchen, on-site food pantry and additional storage and office spaces. Facing Hunger purchased...
Gov. Justice celebrates Hunger Free West Virginia Cooler
POCA, WV – Gov. Jim Justice participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony today at the West Virginia National Guard’s Regional Food Distribution Center at Rock Branch. The distribution center allows multiple organizations to work together in a whole-of-government...
Facing Hunger Foodbank, OVP Health partner to serve those facing food insecurity
March 25, 2023 A mobile food drive took place Friday at the future site of OVP Health Community Health Partnership, formerly known as Colonial Lanes, in Huntington. Samantha Edwards, chief development officer for Facing Hunger Foodbank, said Friday’s event was part of...
Facing Hunger Celebrates 40th Anniversary
This year, 2023, is the food bank’s 40th year of operation. The place the food bank started from — size, staffing, reach,and resources — is very different from where we are today. But those 40 years have been valuable in every respect of ourwork, and those years have...
Hunger Free WV Day 2023
Hunger Free WV is a collaborative effort between Facing Hunger Foodbank and Mountaineer Foodbank. Together, we are working toward a Hunger Free West Virginia, where everyone who lives here can access the food they choose, where they want, when they need it. This year...
Huntington Ice Bowl Provides Over 50,000 Meals
Saturday, January 28th marked the 26th annual Huntington Ice Bowl; a doubles disc golf tournament hosted by Andy Harshbarger and Van Man Discs. With over 150 players, they were able to raise nearly $6,000! This is enough to provide a meal to over 53,400 of our...