In the News ... "Food Bank's Souper Bowl of Caring wraps up Feb. 7"

• Grocery store customers may participate through food bag purchases, cash donations

Rich Lopez, Reporter
Midland Reporter-Telegram

ODESSA/MIDLAND, TEXAS - he West Texas Food Bank and Albertsons and Market Street Stores will have their final push this weekend for their Souper Bowl of Caring campaign. The campaign will accept both grocery and cash donations through Sunday. The Food Bank, which recently moved into new facilities in Odessa, distributes donated and purchased food through a network of more than 75 partner Agencies in 19 counties throughout West Texas with every dollar donated providing four meals for the hungry ...

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Souper Bowl of Caring is a national youth-led movement that works to spread awareness of and fight hunger in the United States with every penny collected by participants. Souper Bowl of Caring will send anyone who asks everything necessary to start a donation drive, at a time of year when most food banks are depleted from the holidays. But the best part is that you get to choose where the money goes in your local community. No money gets sent to the organization; all you do is report your total amount raised.