<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Arial Narrow";
panose-1:2 11 6 6 2 2 2 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Myriad Pro";
panose-1:2 11 5 3 3 4 3 2 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Century Gothic";
panose-1:2 11 5 2 2 2 2 2 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:+mn-ea;
panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
h1
{mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 1 Char";
margin-top:15.0pt;
margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:2.0pt;
margin-left:0in;
line-height:115%;
font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
font-variant:small-caps;
letter-spacing:.25pt;
font-weight:normal;}
h2
{mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 2 Char";
margin-top:12.0pt;
margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:4.0pt;
margin-left:0in;
line-height:115%;
font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
font-variant:small-caps;
letter-spacing:.25pt;
font-weight:normal;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
span.Heading1Char
{mso-style-name:"Heading 1 Char";
mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 1";
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
font-variant:small-caps;
letter-spacing:.25pt;}
span.Heading2Char
{mso-style-name:"Heading 2 Char";
mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 2";
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
font-variant:small-caps;
letter-spacing:.25pt;}
p.ContactInformation, li.ContactInformation, div.ContactInformation
{mso-style-name:"Contact Information";
margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;
line-height:9.0pt;
mso-line-height-rule:exactly;
font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";
color:#2A5A78;
letter-spacing:-.25pt;}
p.ContactName, li.ContactName, div.ContactName
{mso-style-name:"Contact Name";
margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;
line-height:9.0pt;
mso-line-height-rule:exactly;
font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";
color:#2A5A78;
letter-spacing:-.25pt;
font-weight:bold;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1027" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div class="WordSection1">
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="624" style="width:6.5in;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;margin-bottom:7.75pt">
<tbody>
<tr style="height:64.75pt">
<td width="224" style="width:167.75pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #2A5A78 1.0pt;padding:2.9pt 5.75pt 2.9pt 5.75pt;height:64.75pt">
<p class="ContactName" style="line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:page;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:56.75pt;mso-height-rule:exactly">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"">Contact: Jeff Gutierrez<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ContactInformation" style="line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:page;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:56.75pt;mso-height-rule:exactly">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"">Montana Food Bank Network<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ContactInformation" style="line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:page;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:56.75pt;mso-height-rule:exactly">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"">Tel: (406) 215-1775
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ContactInformation" style="line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:page;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:56.75pt;mso-height-rule:exactly">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"">Email: </span>
<a href="mailto:ggifford@mfbn.org"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"">jgutierrez@mfbn.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ContactInformation" style="mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:page;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:56.75pt;mso-height-rule:exactly">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td width="180" style="width:135.0pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #2A5A78 1.0pt;padding:2.9pt 5.75pt 2.9pt 5.75pt;height:64.75pt">
<p class="ContactInformation" style="mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:page;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:56.75pt;mso-height-rule:exactly">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ContactInformation" style="mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:page;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:56.75pt;mso-height-rule:exactly">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td width="220" style="width:165.25pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid #2A5A78 1.0pt;padding:2.9pt 5.75pt 2.9pt 5.75pt;height:64.75pt">
<h2 align="right" style="margin-top:0in;text-align:right;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:page;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:56.75pt;mso-height-rule:exactly">
<!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
<v:stroke joinstyle="miter" />
<v:formulas>
<v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0" />
<v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0" />
<v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1" />
<v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2" />
<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth" />
<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight" />
<v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1" />
<v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2" />
<v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth" />
<v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0" />
<v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight" />
<v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0" />
</v:formulas>
<v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" />
<o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t" />
</v:shapetype><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_1" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t75" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:91.75pt;margin-top:1pt;width:62.25pt;height:58.25pt;z-index:251661312;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:absolute;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-width-relative:page;mso-height-relative:page'>
<v:imagedata src="cid:image001.png@01D10B1C.9B8C0650" o:title="" />
</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><span style="mso-ignore:vglayout;position:absolute;z-index:251661312;left:0px;margin-left:122px;margin-top:1px;width:83px;height:78px"><img width="83" height="78" src="cid:image002.png@01D10B1E.0403D720" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1"></span><![endif]><o:p></o:p></h2>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h1 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">PRESS RELEASE
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">FOR </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">IMMEDIATE RELEASE
<span style="color:#F79646">October 20, 2015</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#1F497D">After a successful year in 2014, Hunters Against Hunger prepares for an even larger response this hunting season.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"">"A Montana law passed during the 2013 state session allows individuals to make a contribution that will help nonprofit groups process donated wild game for free distribution by Montana
Food Bank Network to help feed people in need," said Ron Aasheim, spokesman for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks in Helena. The law came into effect when Montana State Senator Kendall Van Dyk sponsored SB123 which passed to become 87-1-293.
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"">As a result of the new legislation and Montana Food Bank Network’s implementation of the Hunters Against Hunger program, hunters were able to donate over 38,000 pounds of big game to 24
different hunger-fighting organizations throughout Montana in 2014. Meat is an extremely expensive and rare commodity for most food distribution sites.
</span>“We have never in my time here had this much game. Truly a huge gift” explains Jill Holder, Operations Manager at Gallatin Valley Food Bank, about the impact of the program.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"">The Montana Food Bank Network is preparing for an increase in the amount of game donations as awareness increases this year.</span>
<span style="font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"">In partnership with Montana Fish, Wildlife, & Parks, hunters in Montana are being informed of the option of donating their big game. Hunters who legally harvested big game during the hunting season are able
to donate the meat to help Montanans in need at no cost to the hunter. Only legally harvested or confiscated big game animals can be donated (deer, elk, antelope, moose and wild buffalo). No road kill can be donated. Any hunters interested in donating their
game can deliver the big game to the nearest participating meat processor (authorized processors and more information for hunters can be found at
<b>mfbn.org/hunters-against-hunger</b>). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.1pt"><span style="font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"">To offset the cost of processing, anyone purchasing a Montana hunting license has the opportunity to make an on-the-spot donation to Hunters Against Hunger. A
hunter who applies for or purchases a deer, antelope, elk, or wild buffalo license may also additionally donate to the program. The cost of processing the donated game is reimbursed to the processors by the Montana Food Bank Network. In 2014, the average
cost of processing was $1.74/pound. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.1pt"><span style="font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"">Participation by meat processors and hunters are the keys to success to growing this program. Meat processors, hunters, or any others interested in becoming involved
or would like more information about the Hunters Against Hunger program, can contact Jeff Gutierrez at the Montana Food Bank Network, (406) 215-1775 or visit</span><span style="font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"">
</span><a href="http://mfbn.org/hunters-against-hunger"><b><span style="font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"">mfbn.org/hunters-against-hunger</span></b></a><span style="font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"">.</span><span style="font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
<hr size="2" width="100%" align="center">
</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.1pt"><b>The Montana Food Bank Network, </b>
located at 5625 Expressway, Missoula MT,<b> </b>secures and distributes donated and low cost food and grocery products annually to over 200 hunger relief agencies throughout Montana. The Network works to meet the immediate need for food while advocating at
the local, state, and national level for policy changes to help eliminate hunger and food insecurity in Montana. The Montana Food Bank Network is a member of Feeding America. Visit
<b>mfbn.org </b>to learn more about Hunters Against Hunger and other programs, make a donation or learn more about the Montana Food Bank Network.
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<br>
<hr>
<font face="Arial" color="Gray" size="1"><br>
DISCLAIMER<br>
The information contained in this email may be confidential, and has been sent for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, distribution
or copying of this communication, or any of its contents, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.<br>
</font>
</body>
</html>