RIVER VALLEY and OZARK AREA — Arkansas Hunters Feeding the Hungry is a program that has provided approximately one million meals to the state's most needy citizens.
The program has been in place since 2000.
The success of the program depends upon the generosity of hunters to donate venison and other wild game, cooperation from meat processors throughout the state, support from local food distribution organizations and the financial contributions of businesses and other citizens.
Hunters can donate one deer or a portion of a deer from this season and help Arkansas Hunters Feeding the Hungry so that the state's less fortunate can have healthy meals.
There are about 40 meat processors statewide who accept and process venison and other wild game from hunters for the program.
Donating venison and other wild game is one way to makesure the meat is not wasted. The following is a list of processors in the River Valley and Ozark area: Processors (by county) Cleburne - Lonnie's Meat Market, 1141 Arkansas 25B N., Heber Springs, (501) 362-6300 Faulkner - Mayflower Taxidermy, 693 Arkansas 365, Mayflower, (501) 470-3400 Faulkner - Lonnie's Meat Market, 705 Club Lane, Suite104, Conway, (501) 450-7100
Pope - Ferguson' s Slaughter House, 13451 E. Arkansas 64, Atkins, (479) 641-7604
Van Buren - Clinton Meat Processor, 3288 Arkansas 65N, Clinton, (501) 745-4844
Yell - AR Quality Processors, 23753 Arkansas 154, Dardanelle, (479) 576-4419 - courtesy of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Web site, www.agfc.com/hunting
River Valley Ozark, Pages 75 on 09/24/2009