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Adair Schools and Hunters for The Hungry partner By Amber Hobaugh Adair County Schools Superintendent Jason Faulkner along with administrators, FRYSC representatives, Title I coordinators and many other members of the Adair County school system gathered in the conference room at the Adair County Board of Education to witness an outstanding partnership take place. The announcement: Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry will be launching a program in Adair County Schools to help feed children in need. Local Hunters for the Hungry representative Terry Partin said, "when I first contacted Jason (Superintendent Faulkner) about this, it was as if he had been waiting for my call. He already had in his mind the road map for how we could administer this program in Adair County and how we could utilize exactly how the program was intended." The program is in its infancy and Adair County Schools will only be one of only two schools in the state to launch the program which will provide venison based meat products for students who currently benefit from programs such as the "Backpack program." Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry (KHFH) is a charitable organization that is composed of responsible hunters and conservationists who volunteer their time to encourage hunters to harvest and donate deer each season. KHFH is a statewide hunger relief program dedicated to providing a healthy source of protein to needy Kentuckians. Their mission is to alleviate hunger and malnutrition in Kentucky by paying for the processing and distributing donated venison to those in need, to provide an outlet for hunters to help their communities and promote environmental stewardship through wildlife management. Kentucky ranks within the top ten states in the nation with some of the highest percentages of households who face food insecurity. How can local hunters help the cause? That's easy, hunt. There are many ways to help those in need through this program but deer harvesting is the main component. Partin said that although hunters are allowed four deer in zone two each deer season, that most hunters do not actually meet that quota whether it be because their family does not have a need for that much meat or because they do not have the space to store it. Through KHFH hunters are encouraged to meet the deer quota and then donate the extra that they may not need to those less fortunate. Landowners are encouraged to consider allowing other hunters to hunt on their property so that everyone can reach their tag limit and hopefully be able to donate as well. "I have hunted in several states and donated in many of them but Kentucky is the only state that I have hunted in where the hunter does not have to pay the process fee for the meat they are donating," Partin said. Yes, you read that right. Any hunter can donate to help the hungry free of charge through the KHFH program. "Hunters are required to tag the deer through Telecheck. Once they do that, we ask that they field dress the animal and encourage them to place ice bags in the chest cavity and take it to the nearest processing plant." From there, the meat will be processed usually into ground meat to be donated to local food pantries but with this new program some of the meat will be made into venison meat sticks. These venison meat sticks will then be delivered to the FRYSC coordinators for Adair County Schools, where it will then be distributed to students in need. According to the Feeding America, Kentucky's Heartland website, data reveals that 20.7% of Adair County's children are food insecure. Through the "Backpack Program" provided by Title I, every $120 donated can provide a supplemental food bag with twelve to fourteen kid-friendly items to feed a hungry child. Through this partnership with Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry, protein based items for the "Backpack Program" and other programs become less of a challenge considering rising food costs. "Speaking to a room of educators, we know we have an excellent school system, we know that the instruction is there but what we realize is that a child who comes to school in the morning who is hungry cannot concentrate on the instruction they receive if they are worried about where their next meal is going to come from," Partin said. Commissioner for Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Rich Storm was also present at the announcement. "Kentucky is estimated to have over 1,000,000 whitetail deer and the average hunter only harvests 1.2 deer per season. Kentucky also has some of the cheapest costs for licenses and tags in the nation," Storm said. He continued by saying, "Kentucky Fish and Wildlife has just worked out grant funding in the amount of $400,000 that we are committed to spend with Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry. We are the first state in the nation to do this. We're going to fight the hunger initiative with dollars that we've never spent before." Partin added that Hometown Meat Processing the Fairplay community, Cody and Kim White from Edmonton, and Showalter's Country Meats in the Windsor community of Casey County are all approved processors within a 25 mile radius. Kentucky Nutrition Services Inc. (KNS), Farm Credit Services of Mid-America, Don Franklin Family dealerships, the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife foundation, Kentucky Gun Company and Ultimate Whitetail are all sponsors for the program and are helping to bring it to fruition for those students in need in Adair County. WAIN 93.5FM will also be providing 500 public service announcements to help spread the word about Hunters for the Hungry to help benefit the program. In addition to Terry Partin, Richard Phelps is also a local representative for Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry in south central Kentucky. They, along with Roger LaPointe who is the Executive Director and Chairman of the Board for Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry Tom Hebert would like to challenge all outdoorsmen in Adair County to get involved with this program. For more information on Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry, to find other approved processors or other ways that you can donate or help the cause please visit kyhuntersforthehungry.com. This story was posted on 2023-10-29 11:00:19
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