Pantry for Adair County PAC

A great idea for your Saturday evening!

At 12:30 today April 1st the novinger 5th grade class presented to The Pantry of Adair County 800 boxes of cereal. This cereal came from four different states and several cities between here in St Louis. They put the cereal down the hallway of the elementary and back to the cafeteria and celebrated. Watch the video below. This evening on KTVO Channel 3 the story will be aired at 6 and at 10 be sure to watch. Thank you fifth graders, the entire School, the community and everyone that donated. This is an awesome gift to The Pantry of Adair County and the food insecure that we serve in Adair County. Thank you

Molly, Emily & Friends spent Saturday morning at the Pantry doing some projects that needs a few extra hands to accomplish. Thank You Molly & Emily for getting the message out about PAC and food insecurity to the Truman students, staff & professors. Thank You Friends for getting up early on Saturday and coming to help us. They really are smiling - just use your imagination.

Novinger 5th Grade Cereal Challenge UPDATE Total now stands at 408 boxes, with more still coming in. 3 more days to get your donations delivered for the 5th Grade Cereal Drive. Then on Thursday they will have the boxes set up for a domino run to celebrate their accomplishments and KTVO-3 will be there to record the event. ... Cereal delivery will be on Tuesday, April 6th @ 1 pm with the 5th Grade arriving in a school bus with their donation. Stay tuned for the final totals.

Adair Co.R-1 (Novinger) 5th Graders are collecting boxed cereal for Pantry for Adair County. Their original goal was 160 boxes for 12 days. However, after only 4 days they have 252 boxes. These kids are learning a lot through their project - setting goals, advertising, planning, calculations, team work and etc. Won't you help them feed the food insecure of Adair County? There are totes by the front doors of the school for your donations. Thank You in advance from the 5t...h graders, Pantry for Adair County and the families who will receive these boxes of cereal. 8 more days to go. Ends March 31st.

How about those Scouts! Scouts and leaders of Troops 401 and 404 of the Great Rivers Council BSA spent today collecting peanut butter and other canned/non-perishables and delivered it to the Pantry for Adair County. Thanks to the citizens and shoppers who responded to post-it notes at their residences or purchased items while doing their shopping and donated. Approximately 292 jars of peanut butter and 436 other non-persishables will make a huge difference as PAC strives to ...provide nutritious supplemental food for the food insecure in Adair County. Thanks, also, to First United Methodist Church and Mary Immaculate Church for sponsoring these Troups. Thank you Scoutmasters Greg Marshall and son Connor and Bill King and son Connor, Ted Frushour and Ira, Marc Bowen, Drew Mayes, Adam Dorrell, Connor, Will and Quinn, Matt Meinen and Isaiah, Amber Lash and Aiden, John Ward, Jim McCormick, Adyn Carpenter, Patrick Nolan, Cormac Nolan, Luke Ward, Wally Ward, Michael Costello, Justin Wiles and Eloise, Buel and Austin Dean. PAC is overwhelmed by your outstanding effort to help us fulfill our mission. See more

Back in late October and November PAC started promoting our Christmas Blessing Bags. THANKS to your generosity and the gifts of many we were able to distribute 297 Blessings Bags/Boxes to our clients. The list below shows a general list of items that were included. Because of YOU Pantry for Adair County was able to add this additional food to over half of our clients during the month of December. Thank You seems so inadequate, but when we all work together we are able t...o accomplish a lot of good and help those in need. May your 2021 be a blessing to you, yours and many others.

Sheila's She Shed has arrived at the Pantry for Adair County. No more standing out in the elements collecting client information. Thank You to Jimmy Brownell and sons for the construction and delivery of this shed. It will make the winter manageable and certainly more comfortable. SO - when you come to the pantry to get food, know you must first stop at Sheila's She Shed to get the process started, before backing up to the concrete for loading. ... Be watching for directions.

Not long ago Pantry for Adair County was awarded a $2,500 grant from Tri-County Electric. We used those funds and added a little to purchase this 2-door True Cooler. It is being used to hold cool items like eggs, milk and etc while distribution is taking place. It arrived on Monday, January 4th and is now in service. Thank You Tri-County Electric and other donors for providing us with this valuable piece of refrigeration equipment.

As we move from 2020 into the New Year 2021, Pantry for Adair County Staff, Board of Directors and Volunteers want to offer thanks to the community for their support of our mission:".... to assist in providing supplemental food for those food insecure residents of Adair County." As a 501[c]3 Non-profit we are dependent upon your generosity, whether in the form of grants, donations, gifts of food, support of food drives or whatever form it takes. You are our lifeblood to Ada...ir County. We also want to give a HUGE SHOUTOUT to the Food Bank of Central and Northeast Missouri for their support. And VOLUNTEERS - your are the best. We would not be able to keep the doors open and the shelves stalked without your never ending help. Thank You for all that you do and all the hours you donate. 2021 Look Out - here we come!!! Thank You and God Bless Sheila - Executive Director/Operations Manager PS: if you are still looking to make a year-end donation, it may be mailed to PAC, 201 South High Street, Kirksville, MO 63501.

Pantry for Adair County had a busy day yesterday, only made possible by the many volunteers who showed up at a moments notice to help with the projects. Upon arriving at the PAC we discovered that all of the concrete was a skating rink, dangerous to walk on and really slick.. Call into action some kids I know - Travis, Keith, Stephen, Megdalynn and their momma Megin - they came with shovels, picks and lots of energy. Guided by Mark Crawford, along with Mary Crawford, Mary... Myers and Chris Korte and lots of ice melt, it was mostly clear by 11 am. Then we received an extra truck yesterday with some awesome stuff, which often means sorting, sorting, sorting. And once again the volunteers stepped up and before we left at 3:30 it was all sorted, put away and the mess cleaned up. We have the best volunteers in town, dedicated, determined and willing to come with a text notice that help is needed. Thank You one and all for all the work that you did yesterday. We couldn't do it without you. Blessings and Best Wishes for 2020. Sheila, Executive Director/Operations Manager.

The Pantry for Adair County will again hand out Blessing Boxes to our families in December - can you help? Each day, gather the item and bring the completed box to the pantry the week after Thanksgiving. Consider doing this with your family, your book club, your Sunday School class ... you get the idea ... or you can make a monetary donation and we will put the box together for you! The address of the pantry building is 2012 S. Halliburton and our mailing address is 201 S. High St., Kirksville. Thank you in advance for your continued support of your neighbors in Adair County.

A huge Thank You! to Sylvia & Megan for the time and effort they put into their bake sale and cereal drive the last two weekends at the Kirksville's Farmers Market for the pantry! Today they brought by $1300.50 and 14 boxes of cereal to help those with food insecurity in Adair county. Great Job!!!!

ATSU Garden Club has been conducting a food drive since September 13th and on the 20th delivered all the goods. Pictured is Hannah of the ATSU Garden Club presenting the items, weighing 334 lbs. that they collected for the Pantry for Adair County. Thank You ATSU Garden Club and help from Take Root for this generous donation.

Saturday, September 19th Pantry for Adair County welcomed Elaine AuBushon's Freshman Symposium class from Truman. 40+ students spent an hour working on much needed projects that required additional hands to accomplish the task. Shopping, defrosting freezers, cleaning shelves, painting, re-stocking of shelving, cleaning floors, and sorting a pallet of miscellaneous shelf stable food items recently received, filled their time of service. A BIG SHOUT OUT to each one who came and served PAC and their clients by helping with these projects. BIG THANKS to friend Amy from West Liberty, IA who may have chose the wrong weekend to visit. Way to go Truman Freshman!!!!

Megan [L] & Sylvia [R], both KHS juniors, have been baking again :-) They will have a booth again at the Kirksville's Farmers Market tomorrow morning with proceeds going to the Pantry for Adair Co. Stop by for a sweet treat!

We received a huge shipment of dried yellow lentils (split peas) at the pantry...here's an easy to make "crock pot" meal that has a wonderful fall warmth to it. If you don't have a crock pot, a pot on the stove will do; just be sure to keep the heat low after bringing to a boil, and stir often. It won't take as long on the stove, but you'll want to avoid it sticking to the bottom of the pot. CHICKEN AND LENTIL STEW (Serves 4-6) INGREDIENTS:... 2 cups dried yellow lentils 1/2 cup plain yogurt 1 quart Chicken broth 1/2 pound diced boneless chicken pieces (The frozen diced chicken we have at the pantry right now will do nicely!) 1 small onion 1 medium to large tomato 1/2 cup of okra (or green beans, or carrots, or whatever veggie you have leftover in your fridge--the more veggies you add, the further the stew will "stretch") 2 teaspoons garlic powder 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper 2 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons curry powder 1/2 teaspoon cumin pinch of turmeric 1/4 cup honey OR 1/3 cup brown sugar 2 tablespoons olive oil or cooking oil Put all ingredients in the crock pot, turn the heat to "low" and cook 4-6 hours, until enough of the water has evaporated and it has the thick consistency of a stew and the lentils are soft. Serve with bread, crackers, or dinner rolls to help wipe up every last drop!

Pantry for Adair County is OUT of produce boxes. The USDA has not announced how they will move forward and what that will look like. Watch this page for further updates.

Thank you to the ATSU Garden Club for sponsoring this Food Drive! Cereal, jam & jelly, and pasta are being collected to help our neighbors here in Adair County.

Thank you so very much Bank Midwest for the donation to help our neighbors in Adair County!

Please stop by the Farmers Market tomorrow- we heard there’s been a lot of baking happening today for the booth supporting the pantry!

Thank you so much for choosing PAC Mary and Charles Giovannini - they were recently awarded an America’s Farmers Grow Communities donation, sponsored by the Bayer Fund, and directed the donation to the Pantry for Adair County. We will be able to continue helping our neighbors in Adair county who have food insecurities with these funds. @AmericasFarmers #GrowCommunities

PRODUCE BOXES have arrived at Pantry for Adair County, We are open today (Tuesday) 4-6 pm, Wednesday 1-3 and Friday 1-3

Thanks to students,Sylvia & Megan, for hosting this Cereal Drive and Bake Sale for the pantry this Saturday at the Kirksville Farmer's Market