FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Playing off of this year’s theme of “Be a SOUPer Hero”, the Fill the Dome food drive was a “SOUPer success”. It hauled in over 100,000 pounds of food and over $45,000 in donations. The 19th annual event was conducted by area high school, middle and elementary students. Since 2007, Fill the Dome has united more…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Area high school students were at the Fargodome on Monday, hoping to fill it with food for those in need. This is the 19th year for the event. Fill the Dome was started in 2007 by student leaders. Since that time, students have collected more than 2.7 million pounds of food and over $884,000 to benefit…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Local students are again gearing up to collect supplies and raise money for the vulnerable members of our community. It’s almost time for the annual Fill the Dome event at the Fargodome. It’s been taking place since 2007 and has collected 2.6 million pounds of food in that time. This year, the Metro Area Student Ambassadors…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Local students collect nearly 120,000 pounds of food and around $30,000 in donations for the 18th annual Fill the Dome. That is enough to provide more than 99,600 meals for those in need. Fill the Dome has united more than 50 schools to collect food and funds to support food pantries and soup kitchens in the…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – It was a record breaking day at the FARGODOME for the 2023 Fill the Dome food drive. As metro area students raised over $30,000 and more than 100,000 pounds of food for the 17th annual event. “On days like this, I am so hopeful and so optimistic that we can end hunger,” said Melissa Sobolik, the…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Hundreds of students from elementary to high school and local leaders partner with the Great Plains Food bank in the annual Fill the Dome campaign. “This is the first year since, I believe, 2019 we’ve been able to be back in the dome following COVID and just some issues with the flooring here, we haven’t been…
FARGO, N.D. – The numbers are in, and the fight to end hunger is getting a sucker punch from kids in our area. The 13th Annual Fill the Dome event collected a total of 188,033 pounds of food. That amount is just shy of the 195,000 pounds collected last year. To date, the event has collected nearly 2,300,000 pounds of…
FARGO, N.D. – If you were at the Fargodome just two weeks ago, the inside is probably pretty unrecognizable now. Instead of a football field, it’s filled with hundreds of thousands of pounds of food and household essentials for the Fill the Dome event. There’s one reason for all of that food : A promise the Metro Area Student Ambassadors…
FARGO, N.D. — After 36 years, Great Plains Food Bank delivers its 175,000,000th meal. Six pallets of food are headed for Bismarck and will be given to Ministry on the Margins. It’s a charitable feeding program that helps people released from prison or who struggle from addiction. Great Plains’ chief development officer Marcia Paulson says making such a milestone…
FARGO, N.D. — Now that students from more than 50 local schools have filled the Fargodome floor for the annual “Fill the Dome”, it’s time to fill some boxes. They spent all morning packing boxes of food that were weighed at Great Plains Food Bank. They brought in 193,201 pounds of food this year. Food bank employees say it’s estimated the…
