Foundation Journal

Harvesters, a 30-year old food bank in Kansas City, is opening a second distribution center in Topeka to better cover its service area in Kansas. The reports of the economy improving are quietly eclipsed by a still increasing demand at food pantries, as well as record highs in food stamp applications , especially in Missouri and Kansas . Several other food banks across the US are expanding the size of their warehouses, but others are expanding new programs to serve specific groups, like providing backpacks full of food over the weekend for school-age children and programs geared toward homeless high school kids.

Used to be people had to break in to your apartment to get to your gadgets. The first house in college I shared with two roommates was broken into twice in six months, plus the windows in my car were all broken. I think they stole clothes that time since I had no gadgets. At another apartment someone entered the first floor window and took a boombox;  they left in a hurry without taking a 13-inch TV. Now people are walking around with their collection of gadgets -- one of my daughters had a phone stolen from her purse at a friend's party, another daughter an iPod during PE class. Do people even consider it wrong to steal a phone left unattended on a table?