A $2,700 check to go toward backpack meals for Hawkins County Schools students is presented May 17 to the school system’s Family Resource Center. Left to right, Hawkins County Farmers Cooperative Manager Matthew Ball, Ed Snodgrass of Farm Credit Services Mid-America, resource center Director April Couch, Hawkins County Farm Bureau Women’s Chairwoman Judy Bowery, Hawkins County Farm Bureau Board of Directors President Jim Wells, Casey Hodge of Rural 1st and Rogersville Farm Bureau Agency Manager Steve Hayworth.
A $2,700 check to go toward backpack meals for Hawkins County Schools students is presented May 17 to the school system’s Family Resource Center. Left to right, Hawkins County Farmers Cooperative Manager Matthew Ball, Ed Snodgrass of Farm Credit Services Mid-America, resource center Director April Couch, Hawkins County Farm Bureau Women’s Chairwoman Judy Bowery, Hawkins County Farm Bureau Board of Directors President Jim Wells, Casey Hodge of Rural 1st and Rogersville Farm Bureau Agency Manager Steve Hayworth.
ROGERSVILLE — A program called Shooting Hunger is helping children who need food to eat in Hawkins County.
The Family Resource Center in Hawkins County Schools in mid-May received a $2,700 donation to help provide backpack meals for hungry children in the county.
Representatives from the Tennessee Farm Bureau, Tennessee Farmers Cooperation and Farm Credit Mid-America/Rural 1st donated the money.
The funds were raised through Shooting Hunger sport clay shooting events. Since 2015, the events have provided more than 2 million meals to hungry Tennesseans, according to a news release form Farm Bureau.
Those who attended the check presentation were Hawkins County Farmers Cooperative Manager Matthew Ball, Ed Snodgrass of Farm Credit Services Mid-America, resource center Director April Couch, Hawkins County Farm Bureau Women’s Chairwoman Judy Bowery, Hawkins County Farm Bureau Board of Directors President Jim Wells, Casey Hodge of Rural 1st and Rogersville Farm Bureau Agency Manager Steve Hayworth.
