Students at Chasco Middle School got a lesson in sharing and giving back to the community during a two-week food drive held on campus. The National Junior Honor Society club held a school-wide challenge to see which class in both the middle school on Ridge Road and the adjacent Chasco Elementary School could collect the most cans of nonperishable food, says Cheryl Vinson, NJHS sponsor and language arts teacher. ...more

November 27, 2007

Students at Chasco Elementary and Middle schools ended up with quite a haul - more than 2,600 cans of food - during a two-week lesson in sharing. ...more

November 26, 2007

A Ruskin church that had a trailer full of food stolen last week is reaching out to a Pinellas Park church damaged by an arsonist on Sunday. ...more

November 21, 2007

RUSKIN - A Ruskin church that had a trailer full of food stolen last week is reaching out to a Pinellas Park church damaged by an arsonist Sunday. ...more

November 20, 2007

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Suncoast has paired with its neighbor on Congress Street, the Volunteer Way food bank, for a new "Animeals" food assistance program for pet owners. ...more

November 17, 2007

Charlie Reese probably won't be a walking Tampa Bay Devil Rays advertisement, after all. ...more

October 29, 2007

SEBRING — Those looking for USDA food commodities from the Salvation Army after the county quit supplying it will have to get it somewhere else for at least another month and a half. The Salvation Army in Sebring is undergoing a "routine" first-time inspection and audit that will continue at least a month, said Linda Cahill of the Lakeland-based Cahill Ministries Food Bank. "It's just a routine thing... every time an organization comes in, it first must be inspected," Cahill said. "It took Salvation Army a long time to get their paperwork back." The USDA food commodity program provides mostly canned food and some dry food for the needy, and several food pantries get their designated USDA commodity food from food banks. ...more

October 29, 2007

The spirit of our community is the spirit of volunteerism. From the founding of this great nation to the present, volunteerism has helped make America what it is. ...more

September 30, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - Charlie Reese has promised to shave the Tampa Bay Devil Rays' logo into his thick, salt-and-pepper hair if local businesses donate $25,000 for the next Habitat for Humanity house in central Pasco County. ...more

September 17, 2007