Hebron, Neb. (KOLN) -In a state that functions as the start of the food chain, it’s hard to imagine anyone would go hungry. It’s easy to think of ourselves as the bread basket, especially when one side of the road is a field of corn and the other is a field of beans.
Yet, tucked away in rural communities, often flanked by these fields, are often hungry bellies.
“The food that we primarily grow in our state is for livestock, but it still leads, you know, it’s part of the food chain,” Michaella Kumke, the Executive Director of the Lincoln Food Bank said. “It is sometimes dissonance there.”
Fighting hunger requires a patchwork of people coming together to make sure no one misses a meal. And a person who made a splash this summer is Deb Bulin.
Bulin manages the pool in Hebron during the summer and teaches during the …