By MARIJO MARTINEC Associate Director Food Bank of Northern Indiana WARSAW — The Food Bank of Northern Indiana’s mobile food pantry is scheduled for northern Indiana in January. The mobile pantry offers dry goods, perishable items, dairy, grains, produce and protein free of charge to northern Indiana residents. The food bank sets up tables at …read more.

Food banks and pantries around the area are low on supplies and having a hard time keeping stocked, a common problem come February. “After the holiday season entering into the new year, this is really our slowest time of the year [for donations], but the need continues to be great,” stated Marijo Martinec, associate director …read more.

Mission Point Community Church and Grace College are partnering with Owen’s Supermarket on East Center Street in Warsaw to host the third annual Super Market Sweep: Give ‘Til You Drop event on Wednesday, Nov. 20. The Super Market Sweep is an all day event for Warsaw and Winona Lake community members to come together and …read more.

Wawasee High School’s Key Club made the first of three community stops late Tuesday afternoon as part of its annual Stuff the Bus food drive. Key Club members participating at the first stop in the Dollar General parking lot in Milford were, in front from left, Riley Johnston, Alyssa Seaver, Paige Smiley and Leeann Estrada. …read more.

A once vacant apple orchard in Winona Lake is now helping the community by feeding the hungry and offering apples to the public. The orchard offers more than a dozen varieties of apples. Community Apple Orchard, a non-profit organization, restored the orchard three years ago. Since then, fresh fruit has been provided to local food …read more.

Since March, the Food Bank of Northern Indiana has hit the road one day each week delivering nutritious food directly to those in need in a pre-selected community in Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte, Marshall and Starke counties. In addition, the Food Bank runs a weekly “Farmers Market” on site in South Bend. On Wednesday, Aug. 8, …read more.