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Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas receives BNSF donation

Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas has received a 25-hundred-dollar grant from the Burlington-Northern/Santa Fe Railway Foundation.  The money will go the Backpack Program, which helps provide food for hungry children on the weekends and school holidays.  Development Director Vicky Pillow tells KASU news almost 800 children in Northeast Arkansas benefit from the program.  She tells why it is needed:

Vicky Pillow.  27% of the people served through the Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas is under 18.  She says Arkansas is near the bottom in nation when it comes to food security. 

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Vicky Pillow.  The Backpack Program serves 780 school children in Northeast Arkansas, by providing food on the weekends and school holidays. 

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.