{"id":1360,"date":"2026-10-01T18:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/?sjc_news=second-harvest-surpasses-hunger-action-month-goal"},"modified":"2026-10-01T18:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:21:18","slug":"second-harvest-surpasses-hunger-action-month-goal","status":"publish","type":"sjc_news","link":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/?sjc_news=second-harvest-surpasses-hunger-action-month-goal","title":{"rendered":"Second Harvest surpasses Hunger Action Month goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kq2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SecondHarvest.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (KQTV) &#8212; In September, Second Harvest Community Food Bank celebrated Hunger Action Month in an effort to prepare food for individuals and families in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second Harvest said it surpassed its goal of packing over 45,000 pounds of food. The organization said the number does not include mobile pantries or partner food pantries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second Harvest said it saw 637 volunteer hours across 41 groups, with a total value of $19,917 in volunteer work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 2,398 pounds of food were collected at the organization&#8217;s &#8220;Fill the Vans&#8221; event, 1,159 Senior Boxes were packed, 649 Family Packs were built and 1,000 pounds of cereal were packaged. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are grateful for those who believe in our mission and encourage others to join the fight to end hunger moving forward,&#8221; the organization said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kq2.com\/news\/2026\/10\/01\/second-harvest-surpasses-hunger-action-month-goal\/\">Second Harvest surpasses Hunger Action Month goal<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kq2.com\">KQ2 | St. Joseph, Missouri News, Weather &amp; Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (KQTV) &#8212; In September, Second Harvest Community Food Bank celebrated Hunger Action Month in an effort to prepare food for individuals and families in need. Second Harvest said it surpassed its goal of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1361,"template":"","class_list":["post-1360","sjc_news","type-sjc_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sjc_news\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sjc_news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/sjc_news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}