The Wells County Farm Bureau Inc. and the Bluffton Office of Farm Credit Mid-America recently teamed up to donate $300 each and held a food drive to benefit the backpack program, “Feeding Tomorrow’s Future Today,” which provides weekend food packs for hungry children in Wells County.

Celebrating a donation of $600 to the Wells County 4-H Backpack Program are, left to right, Wells County Farm Bureau Inc. board members Helen Witte and Patty Baker and President Jacob Slusher; backpack volunteer Gretta Nusbaumer and her granddaughter, Nora Ruble; Farm Credit Mid-America staffers Lindsay Johnson and Delee Manning; and 4-H Association President Kent Ulmer. (Photo provided)

The backpack program distributes approximately 100 bags of food each week to hungry kids for the weekend and is coordinated by 4-H volunteers with the assistance of Wells County office of Purdue Extension.

All the public schools in the county participate in the program and sign-up is with the school counselor.

For more information about the program, contact Gretta Nusbaumer at 765-499-1412 or Susan Girod at 260-827-8393.

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