10/28/25: Kate Molbert serves as the Interim CEO of the Great Plains Food Bank, and joins Joel Heitkamp in the KFGO studio. 

With a federal government shutdown threatening to pause SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits on November 1, the Great Plains Food Bank is launching an emergency fundraising campaign to help ensure families across North Dakota and Clay County, MN don't go hungry. 

The Great Plains Food Bank’s aims to raise the necessary funds needed to source and distribute an additional one million pounds of food to meet the surge in demand expected in the weeks ahead. 

(Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, “News & Views,” can be heard weekdays from 8 – 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)