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The Local History Index provides only a citation to the article or item. Please visit the Elkhart Public Library’s downtown location at 300 S. Second St. to access the Elkhart Truth newspapers and other collections referenced in this index.

Showing of 139 results for Food pantries.

ID	102602
Title of Article	Foundation works to support food pantries
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Andy Murray
Date	Nov 04, 2025
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Elkhart County Community Foundation, Food Pantries

ID	102595
Title of Article	‘It’s about humanity’
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	People take food items off the shelves at Open Door Food Pantry, 54820 C.R. 1 in Elkhart;
Date	Oct 31, 2025
Page	A1, A3
Subjects	Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Food Pantries

ID	101940
Title of Article	Milford Food Bank breaks ground on new facility
Notes	Milford; Food Bank facility
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	Jun 07, 2025
Page	A5
Subjects	Food Pantries, Food Bank of Northern Indiana

ID	101635
Title of Article	Award honors Cultivate Food Rescue chief
Notes	2025 Hoosier Resilience Hero; Indiana University’s Environmental Resilience Institute
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Jim Conklin
Date	Apr 19, 2025
Page	B1
Subjects	Cultivate Food Rescue, Michiana Area Council of Governments (MACOG), Partners For Clean Air Awards, Food Pantries

ID	100770
Title of Article	Cultivate Food Rescue hits 10M-pound milestone
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Volunteers package food
Date	Feb 25, 2025
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Cultivate Food Rescue, Food Pantries

ID	100266
Title of Article	A ministry of giving
Notes	Food Drop
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	volunteers gave out food items, load truck; volunteers write messages
Date	Jan 28, 2025
Page	A1, A3
Subjects	Granger Community Church, Waypoint Community Church, Food Pantries

ID	100211
Title of Article	Milford Food Bank launches $1M campaign to build storage facility
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Milford Food Bank
Date	Jan 14, 2025
Page	A3
Subjects	Milford, IN, Food Pantries

ID	99283
Title of Article	100 Women Who Care awards grant to Bristol food pantry
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Representatives from Hearts United for Bristol receive a $10,000 grant
Date	Nov 16, 2024
Page	A5
Subjects	100 Women Who Care, Grants, Food Pantries

ID	96838
Title of Article	Food drives aims to ‘Stamp Out’ hunger
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Volunteers load food onto a truck; Rod Roberson speaks at Salvation Army building
Date	May 14, 2024
Page	A3
Subjects	National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive, Crossroads United Way, Food Pantries, Faith Mission

ID	94172
Title of Article	Times hard for many families
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Volunteers pack food; Students pack boxes
Date	Nov 30, 2023
Page	A1, A5
Subjects	Food Bank of Northern Indiana, Food Bank of Elkhart County, Food Pantries

ID	93252
Title of Article	Cultivate announces food rescue milestone
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Meals being packaged
Date	Oct 12, 2023
Page	A6
Subjects	Cultivate Food Rescue, Food Pantries

ID	91266
Title of Article	Susanna’s Kitchen celebrates reopening with open house
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Volunteers at Susanna’s Kitchen serve a hot meal to those in need
Date	Aug 02, 2023
Page	A6
Subjects	Susanna’s Kitchen, Food Pantries, Grace Lutheran Church

ID	92031
Title of Article	Cultivate breaks ground on large-scale cold food storage
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Jim Conklin, co-founder and executive director of Cultivate Food Rescue
Date	Aug 02, 2023
Page	A6
Subjects	Cultivate Food Rescue, Food Pantries

ID	90407
Title of Article	Soup's on
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Volunteers serving food; Judie Hyatte-Howie; Volunteers serving food
Date	Jul 01, 2023
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Susanna’s Kitchen, Grace Lutheran Church, Food Pantries

ID	89278
Title of Article	Food pantries gets boost from postal campaign
Notes	Stamp Out Hunger
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Shelves of the Middlebury Food Pantry were well stocked following the Stamp Out Hunger campaign on Saturday
Date	May 16, 2023
Page	A3
Subjects	Food Drives, United States Postal Service (USPS), Middlebury Food Pantry

ID	85655
Title of Article	Nonprofits: Food pantry demand on the rise
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Volunteers give away produce at a mobile food distribution Monday hosted by the Food Bank of Northern Indiana, River of Life Community Church and the Excel Center
Date	Dec 06, 2022
Page	A1, A5
Subjects	Food Pantries, Volunteer Work, Food Bank of Northern Indiana

ID	84902
Title of Article	Salvation Army adjusts Thanksgiving meal plans
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Volunteers preparing Thanksgiving plates in 2020
Date	Nov 09, 2022
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Salvation Army, Food Pantries

ID	77286
Title of Article	Difficult time of year for food pantries
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Debi Sherwood, of Elkhart, decorates a box for the Granger Community Church food drop-off benefiting several locations;Kaden Haist, 12, of Elkhart, colors one of the hundreds of boxes to be distributed to those in need across Michiana
Date	Jan 25, 2022
Page	A1, A6

ID	72300
Title of Article	Drive-thru food drive benefits 12 pantries
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Elijah, Hannah and Ryann Waite; Larry Fullhart, Esra Heisey and George Etherington
Date	May 11, 2021
Page	A1, A5
Subjects	Food Pantries, Food Drives, Donations

ID	72177
Title of Article	Food pantries say need remains
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	St. Johns and Susannas Kitchen volunteers
Date	May 01, 2021
Page	A1
Subjects	Coronavirus (COVID-19), Food Pantries, Volunteer Work

ID	69363
Title of Article	Center cuts ribbon on new facility
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Jon Andrews; Mark Mikel and guests
Date	Feb 27, 2021
Page	A1
Subjects	Family Christian Development Center, Food Pantries

ID	67622
Title of Article	Food pantries stock up via drive-thru
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Volunteers
Date	May 19, 2020
Page	A1, A8
Subjects	Coronavirus (COVID-19), Salvation Army, United Way of Elkhart County, Volunteer Work

ID	67756
Title of Article	Food drive hopes to stamp out hunger
Notes	United Way of Elkhart & Lagrange Counties
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Nonperishable food items
Date	May 9, 2020
Page	A1, A3
Subjects	Food Pantries, Donations, Coronavirus (COVID-19)

ID	67452
Title of Article	Food pantries step up pace
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Army National Guard members
Date	April 28, 2020
Page	A1, A5
Subjects	Church Community Services, Unemployment, Food Pantries, National Guard

ID	67421
Title of Article	Food pantries race to keep pace
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Melissa Lucas, Devon Lucas, Cassidy Miller, and Miyah Miller
Date	March 26, 2020
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Coronavirus (COVID-19), Food Pantries

ID	66682
Title of Article	Food pantry relocates
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Sandra Sizemore, Tim Waits, Kaitlyn Taylor, Michael Yoder, and Scott Kaiser
Date	August 9, 2019
Page	A5
Subjects	Food Pantries, Donations

ID	65651
Title of Article	Goshen Health Community Garden shares harvest with local food pantries
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Goshen Middle School students
Date	July 2, 2019
Page	A5
Subjects	Goshen Health, Gardens, Food Pantries

ID	64601
Title of Article	Organizers hunt for answers to poverty
Notes	Tom McArthur, Cora Brown
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Lane Miller; Cora Brown
Date	October 28, 2018
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Mennonite Historical Library, Church Community Services, Food Pantries, Emerge Ministries

ID	63291
Title of Article	Local church donates 8,000 pounds of food
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Avery Olsen coloring; Volunteers loading boxes; Volunteers help load truck; 4 year old Grant Tawacki helps volunteers
Date	January 28, 2018
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Granger Community Church, Charity Work, Food Pantries

ID	62900
Title of Article	Sportsmans Club and Osolo EMS team up to fight hunger
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	John Lendman and Tom Krueger assisting donors
Date	November 13, 2017
Page	A1, A8
Subjects	Simonton Lake Sportsmenâ€™s Club, Fire Department, Osolo Township, Food Pantries

ID	62759
Title of Article	Food pantry has new location, new dream
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Middlebury Community Food Pantry
Date	October 28, 2017
Page	A1, A8
Subjects	Middlebury Food Pantry, Food Pantries

ID	61990
Title of Article	Middlebury Food Pantry benefits from Stuff-A-Truck
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Middlebury Lions received over 500 pounds of food
Date	June 8, 2017
Page	A3
Subjects	Middlebury Food Pantry, Lions Club, Food Pantries

ID	59980
Title of Article	Food Drive collects 27 tons of food for county food pantries
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Date	May 16, 2016
Page	A3
Subjects	National City Bank, Food Pantries

ID	59617
Title of Article	Food pantry needs some support
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Sharlee Morain points to collapsing ceiling
Date	March 9, 2016
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Shepherdâ€™s Cove Clothing Pantry, Food Pantries, Renovation

ID	58667
Title of Article	When life gives you watermelons
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Ruth Roberts and Katherine Johnson
Date	August 25, 2015
Page	A1
Subjects	Seed to Feed, Church Community Services, Council On Aging, Food Pantries

ID	57973
Title of Article	Food bank shift worries local pantries
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Date	July 1, 2015
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Church Community Services, Food Pantries, Food Bank of Northern Indiana

ID	57225
Title of Article	Letter carriers' food drive collects nearly 40,000 pounds of food
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Date	May 12, 2015
Page	A5
Subjects	National Christian College Athletic Association, Food Pantries, United Way of Elkhart County

ID	54884
Title of Article	Gardens popping with Seed to Feed produce
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Dave Hochstetler, Brad Culver
Date	August 25, 2014
Page	C1, C2
Subjects	Seed to Feed, Food pantries, Church Community Services

ID	54408
Title of Article	Bicyclists donate to Elkhart County 4-H Fair's food drive, aim to beat record
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of cyclists
Date	June 7, 2014
Page	A3
Subjects	Elkhart County 4-H Fair, Food Pantries, Church Community Services, Bicyclists

ID	54402
Title of Article	Elkhart's 4-H fair attempts world record
Notes	Attempting to break world record for most food collected for a food drive in one day
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo
Date	June 5, 2014
Page	A3
Subjects	Elkhart County 4-H Fair, Food Pantries, Church Community Services

ID	54236
Title of Article	Letter carrier food drive yields more than 7,000 pounds of food
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of Amos Yoder & Katelyn Biggs
Date	May 11, 2014
Page	A3
Subjects	National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive, Food Pantries

ID	54189
Title of Article	Seed to Feed set to grow
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of Lani Fischer and granddaughter
Date	May 6, 2014
Page	A3
Subjects	Seed to Feed, Food Pantries, Church Community Services

ID	53844
Title of Article	CCS Services receives grant
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	March 13, 2014
Page	A1
Subjects	Church Community Services, Food Pantries, American Electric Power (AEP), Grants

ID	53765
Title of Article	Seed to Feed program ready for spring
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm â€“ Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of Katie Jantzen
Date	March 2, 2014
Page	A3
Subjects	Seed to Feed, Food Pantries, Church Community Services

ID	53645
Title of Article	Anonymous donor gives $30,000 gift to Food Bank
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm â€“ Reference Desk
Date	February 12, 2014
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Food Bank of Elkhart County, Church Community Services, Food Pantries

ID	53561
Title of Article	Food Bank of Elkhart County stocks pantry freezers with meat
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm â€“ Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of Alexander Williams & Jimmy Norman
Date	January 22, 2014
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Food and Beverage Tax, Church Community Services, Food Pantries

ID	53293
Title of Article	Seed to Feed wraps up second harvest
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm â€“ Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photos of Kari Longardner & Alex Garcia
Date	December 1, 2013
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Seed to Feed, Food Pantries, Church Community Services

ID	52992
Title of Article	Seed to Feed yield quadruples
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm â€“ Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photos of volunteers
Date	October 7, 2013
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Seed to Feed, Food Pantries, Church Community Services

ID	52653
Title of Article	Fair food drive raised $127,000 for pantry
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm â€“ Reference Desk
Date	August 21, 2013
Page	A1
Subjects	Elkhart County 4-H Fair, Church Community Services, Food Pantries

ID	52654
Title of Article	Food drive continues
Notes	'Million Can March'
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm â€“ Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of volunteers
Date	August 21, 2013
Page	A3
Subjects	Food Pantries, Nappanee, IN