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News
of Society of St.
Andrew, West
Latest Newsletter from SoSA
West
September 9, 2011 - Fox
4 News in Kansas City MO
covers an 11-church
Potato Drop. SoSA West
Director Lisa Ousley is
interviewed. (runs
2:10)
September 9, 2011 - The
NBC station in KC MO
covers the same event as
above. (runs :40)
July 22, 2011 - SoSA is highlighted in a report from
Harvest Public Media - a focus on farm and field stories
by public radio stations in the Midwest. Features
interviews with Bernie Schneider and Jeff Baker of SoSA
West.
(runs 7:51)
March 21, 2011 - Saving Food Not Pretty Enough to Sell -
in the National Catholic Reporter. Features Lisa Ousley
and Bernie Schneider.
March 16, 2011 - "Hunger is Still with Us" - article in
the Neosho Daily News, Neosho MO
Society of St. Andrew potato drop in Sedalia, Missouri,
October 2010
Gleaning story from NBC Action News, Kansas City, August
2010
Blessings delivered in bags - by Mark Morris, Kansas City Star, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2010
Anita Foertsch chose to
spend part of her 39th anniversary Saturday helping off-load 21 tons
of potatoes from a truck that had hauled them from Wisconsin.
But she didn't see it as
much of a sacrifice. Foertsch and dozens of other volunteers who
worked at Prairie Baptist Church in Prairie Village were answering a
biblical call to use the gleanings from harvested fields as
offerings to the poor and needy.
"We have a lot of
fortunate people and a lot of hungry people," Foertsch said. "And
you can't turn down the gift of free potatoes."
After volunteers pulled
more than 4,000 bags of potatoes off the truck and put them into
waiting pickups and trailers, they drove them to 20 community
kitchens, pantries and service centers throughout the metropolitan
area.
