For the 10th year, Hormel Foods Corporation is participating in the "Cure 81 Ham for the Holidays" project.

Saturday, November 13, 1999

For the 10th year, Hormel Foods Corporation is participating in the "Cure 81 Ham for the Holidays" project.

The program donates ham, a nutritious protein-rich product typically not available through food shelves, to the less fortunate nationwide during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays at year’s end.

There are an estimated 239,000 people in Minnesota and nearly 26 million nationwide who are going hungry.

Dian Mack is executive director of the Minnesota Food Bank Network, a non-profit association of eight Second Harvest food banks that provide food to non-profit service agencies in Minnesota, North Dakota and western Wisconsin.

One in 18 Minnesotans relied on a food shelf an average of five times to meet their basic food needs in 1998 and half of the people served by Minnesota foodshelves are children under 18 years of age.

Hormel Foods Corporation is an international marketer of meat and other food products with its corporation headquarters and flagship plant based in Austin.