Jill Schramm/MDN Jan Picotte, a volunteer at the Lord’s Cupboard Food Pantry, reaches for a selection from the food shelf for a client at the pantry Monday, Oct. 27.

Great Plains Food Bank has announced the launch of an emergency fundraising campaign to help ensure families across North Dakota and Clay County, Minnesota, don’t go hungry if the federal government shutdown extends past Friday, Oct. 31. The shutdown threatens to pause Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits on Nov. 1, impacting more than 48,000 North Dakotans.

The Great Plains Food Bank aims to raise the necessary funds needed to source and distribute an additional one million pounds of food to meet the surge in demand expected in the weeks ahead from local food pantries, including those in the Minot area.

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