Montana News
Missoula's food bank and homeless shelter in need following storm-related outages
With Montana News, I'm Elinor Smith. Missoula's Food Bank and homeless shelter were forced to toss out thousands of pounds of food during this week's storm that knocked out power to much of the area. David Hefner, Food Program Manager with the Pavarello Center, estimated the shelter was forced to throw away at least 2,500 pounds of food. Katelyn Tech's Director of the Missoula Food Bank said they were able to save some of their perishables in a refrigerator truck, but still lost a significant amount. Power returned Friday to both charities. They're requesting donations of perishable goods like produce, milk, butter, and meat, as well as bottled water to refill shelves.