Moorhead summit focuses on growing hunger needs

MOORHEAD — More families are reaching out for help putting food on the table. That growing need was part of the conversation at the ninth annual Hunger and Health Summit in Moorhead. The Cass Clay Hunger Coalition brought organizations together at MSUM s Christiansen Alumni Center on Thursday, Oct. 29, to discuss advocacy, public policy and school meals. Great Plains Food Bank's Jill Ambuehl says they served more than 20,000 additional people last year than the year before across their service area. Ambuehl says rising grocery, utility and housing costs are stretching family budgets, and losing access to assistance programs like SNAP is making things harder. She said Thursday's event focused on helping organizations work together to better support their neighbor. "Everybody in here is representing different sectors, different organizations, for-profit and nonprofit. But today we get to be together, and we get to share that information and make us all