H-E-B and Mountain King “One Million Potato Challenge” for Food Banks Across Texas

The Southeast Texas Food Bank would like to thank our corporate partner,
H-E-B, for their generous donation of potatoes for the “One Million Pound Potato Challenge”
Check out this great shipment of Mountain King potatoes…
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Beaumont, TX April 4, 2013-One of H-E-B’s major supplier of potatoes, Mountain King, has issued a One Million Pound Potato Challenge that would provide Texas Food Banks with one full trailer load of fresh 10 lbs. bags of Mountain King russet potatoes. Approximate weight of load is 40,000 lbs. in 10 lbs. bags.
Eddie Garcia, H-E-B Food Assistance Program says,” [This is] a great donation from our friends at Mountain King working with our procurement Team and support of our Great H-E-B customers.”
For a set period of weeks, for every pound of potatoes H-E-B customers purchase of Mountain King potatoes, they will be matched pound-for-pound for donations to the seventeen Texas Food Banks that are currently assisted by our H-E-B Food Bank Assistance Program.

Did you know that a $10 donation can provide up to 30 meals for desperate people in your community? By making a donation, you are helping to ensure that hungry children in Southeast Texas are adequately nourished, that none of our senior citizens are forced to chose between medicine and food, and that every family facing a crisis can at least have the assurance of food on the table.

Your gift goes a long, long way!

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