Thursday, October 24, 2024

Feed the Pride program featured on Newsmakers

(From KGCS)

College students can learn more than just academic lessons at Missouri Southern State University thanks to a grant funded program at Spiva Library on campus. This week on Newsmakers, a look at the Feed the Pride program offering cooking classes and supplies to students as well as offerings at the Lion Coop and Library of Things.

Amber Carr, assistant library director discusses how the Feed the Pride program got its start and shares about the mobile kitchen used to help teach students how to cook healthy meals and food safety tips. Students share how the program has impacted them. Students can check out tools and entertainment items from the Library of Things which offers everything from fishing poles to picnic baskets and cake mixers. The library is also the home base for the Lion Coop which offers food and personal items plus cleaning supplies free to students.







Newsmakers is airing nightly at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. the week of October 27 on KGCS-TV and will air at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, November 2 on KOAM-TV. It is also posted on the station’s YouTube channel: KGCS - Missouri Southern State University.

KGCS programming can be seen on channel 21 and is also available on regional cable television systems such as Sparklight, Mediacom and Optimum Internet in Carthage. The station operates as a service of the Department of Communication at Missouri Southern State University.

  


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