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As a result of economic recession, 2009 dawned with many residents of Laclede and the surrounding counties facing new challenges.

Ozarks Food Harvest's Mobile Food Pantry

Those challenges did not go unnoticed by the board members of the Heuer Foundation. The Foundation teamed with Ozarks Food Harvest (Springfield) to bring bring their mobile food pantry, complete with 7,500 pounds of food, once a month for six months to Lebanon. This distribution from the Heuer Foundation was in addition to its ongoing support of area nonprofit agencies.

COPE Executive Director, Mary Young, shares details of the food distribution plan.

Five Lebanon organizations will help with the distributions and will pre-qualify applicants for the food assistance. The organizations are COPE, Ministerial Alliance, Crosslines of Lebanon, the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army.

The Heuer Foundation Board hopes this gift will encourage others in the community to step forward to help meet the needs of the increasing unemployed population in Laclede County.

Lebanon Rotarians have actively assisted in the monthly food distributions

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

— Marie Curie

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in service to others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.

— William Arthur Ward

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

— Mother Teresa

Since its inception in 1996, the Heuer Foundation has distributed nearly $850,000, primarily to nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations in Laclede and Howell Counties, Missouri.

Generously created by Leila Heuer, the Foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications at any time. Grant applications are reviewed annually; grant application deadline is August 1 each year.