( CHICAGO Today America's Second Harvest...)Hunger Awareness Day to Shed Light on Surprising Face of Hunger June 5,Health

CHICAGO, Today America's Second Harvest -- The Nation's Food Bank Network kicks-off Hunger Awareness Day 2007 with 200 food banks and more than 20,000 food service agencies participating in events across the country. Also, as legislators in Washington D.C. begin to consider drafts of a new Farm Bill and the critically important federal nutrition programs it supports, America's Second Harvest released The Almanac of Hunger and Poverty in America 2007, a comprehensive guide to national and state facts on hunger and poverty in the United States.

Designed as a campaign to link celebrities with the food bank in their hometowns, America's Second Harvest launched "Goin' Home for Hunger," sending leading actors, musicians and other personalities back to where they were raised. Among the stars to sign up were actor and Bostonian Ben Affleck; Olympian and Nashville resident Scott Hamilton; singer and Cincinnati native Nick Lachey; Los Angeles' own actor Scott Wolf; and the Cast of "Legally Blonde - the Musical."

Ben helped out at the Greater Boston Food Bank. Nick volunteered at the FreeStore FoodBank and hosted a "Taste of the NFL" fundraising event in support of the food bank. Scott Hamilton and the up and coming band Emerson Drive stopped by the Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee to volunteer. Scott Wolf visited the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank to help bring greater awareness to the issue of hunger in southern California. The Cast of "Legally Blonde - the Musical" helped New York's City Harvest deliver food.

"We are truly grateful to have such an unbelievable team join us on Hunger Awareness Day to help build awareness and draw greater attention to the severity of hunger in America," said Vicki Escarra, President and CEO of the America's Second Harvest -- The Nation's Food Bank Network. "Hunger is a solvable problem that reaches into every community in this country, affecting one in ten men, women and children. We are h
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