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Local food banks fight food insecurity

Local food banks fight food insecurity
Ben Barker and Dorwin Malsbury unwrapping packs of soup cans at the Newport Food Bank, Tuesday, May 20 in Newport. MINER PHOTO|GABRIELLE FELICIANO

NEWPORT — On the select days they are open each week, five food banks in Pend Oreille and West Bonner counties provide food to hundreds of food-insecure residents for free. They are the Newport Food Bank, Cusick Food Pantry, Kalispel Kupboard, Emergency Food Pantry of Ione and Priest River Food Bank.

* Newport Food Bank: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays at 310 W. Pine St. in Newport * Cusick Food Pantry: 9 to 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays at 402 Riverside Rd. in Cusick * Kalispel Kupboard: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursdays, 20 minutes north of Newport on Highway 20 at 150 Camas Flat Rd. in Cusick * Emergency Food Pantry of Ione: 10 to 11 a.m.

Thursdays at 302 8th Ave. in Ione * Priest River Food Bank: Noon to 5:30 p.m.

Tuesdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursdays at 45 S. McKinley St. No. 107 in Priest River

Diana Nelson filling crates with food at the Newport Food Bank, last week in Newport. MINER PHOTO|GABRIELLE FELICIANO
Above right: April Latimer giving a Cusick Food Pantry client her monthly food box, May 6 in Cusick. COURTESY PHOTO|JOYCE BEACH
Bobby Coleman bringing in produce for the Cusick Food Pantry’s open market area, May 6 in Cusick. COURTESY PHOTO|JOYCE BEACH
Left: Patty Ahlers taking oatmeal from the Priest River Food Bank’s stockroom in Priest River. MINER PHOTO|GABRIELLE FELICIANO

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