Last year, Open Door Benevolent Ministries in Sedalia gave out about 2.75 million pounds of food to hungry people from its pantries. Most of that — about 92 percent, according to Open Door executive Director Jack Menges — came from just one place: The Food Bank of Central and Northeast Missouri.
“We couldn’t do what we do without them,” Menges said in an interview Friday.
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