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06-05-2025
- Business
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New Urbandale Food Pantry facility sees busy first month
DES MOINES, Iowa — The Urbandale Food Pantry is already making an impact in its community after the April opening of a new facility. Officials say the new location at 7901 Douglas Avenue has served more than 2,000 families in just its first month of operation. The Anytime Room, a space dedicated to redistributing rescued food nearing its expiration date, has also seen over 5,000 visits. Experience the 'dark side of the bloom' when corpse flower named Stink Floyd blooms at Reiman Gardens Patty Sneddon-Kisting, Chief Executive Officer of the Urbandale Food Pantry, said they designed the new facility as more than just a pantry. Through a partnership with Project Iowa, career support and workforce development opportunities are being brought into the pantry starting this month. On-site health and nutrition services will also be provided through Broadlawns WIC (Women, Infants, & Children) 'It's about reimagining food support and creating a space where people feel valued and empowered—not just served,' said Sneddon-Kisting. You can learn more about the Urbandale Food Pantry and its programs here. Metro news Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- General
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Urbandale Food Pantry reopens in new facility
DES MOINES, Iowa — A new facility to help fight hunger has officially re-opened in Urbandale. The Urbandale Food Pantry opened its doors Tuesday, just down the street from the old one along Douglas Avenue. The space is more than double the size of the old facility and enhances its accessibility, with larger shopping areas, a waiting room, and a dedicated food recovery space that provides food close to its expiration date to help minimize food waste. Whirlpool to lay off hundreds at Amana facility 'In 2024 the Urbandale Food Pantry rescued over 670,000 pounds of food that would have gone in the trash. So, this food is in conjunction with partners throughout the community so our volunteers go and pick up food and bring it back here and we process it. So, it's food that would have gone in the trash but maybe has a today shelf-life on it, and so we make that available to individuals on a daily basis. So, as the need for access to food continues to rise the anytime room has kind of taken on a mind of its own and we're starting to see a lot of individuals utilize that space,' said Patty Sneddon-Kisting, Executive Director of the Urbandale Food Pantry. Leaders with the pantry say the new space is needed as the pantry continues to break records of people needing food assistance. 'In February of 2022, we served 847 families. In February of 2024, we served more than 1,900 families. Now, we are actively serving more than 2,200 families right now and we were breaking records of families utilizing the service for the first time ever. So,160 to 200 families every single month, who have never received a service before, we're welcoming them into the pantry,' said Sneddon-Kisting. Sneddon-Kisting said within the first four hours of the pantry being open Tuesday they served more than 130 families. Metro News: UPDATE: Missing Des Moines teen found safe Urbandale Food Pantry reopens in new facility Car shoppers get ahead of auto tariffs Victim in fatal Des Moines hit-and-run identified Iowa Wild, ALS Association partner for fundraiser on Star Wars Day Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
