NEW PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE AND WICHITA

                                        	     			Release No. 0117.97 

Media Advisory
                                                               
                                                               
                                			   Tom Amontree  (202) 720-4623
                              				   Laura Trivers    (202) 720-4623

AGRICULTURE SECRETARY DAN GLICKMAN TO ANNOUNCE NEW PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN       
  KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE AND WICHITA BOARD OF EDUCATION

     WASHINGTON, April 17, 1997--Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman Friday
will join area high school students and Wichita VFW volunteers at the Kansas
Foodbank Warehouse to sort recovered food and announce a new partnership
between the Kansas Foodbank Warehouse and the Wichita Board of Education. A
tour of the facility, located at 806 E. Boston, will begin at 2:00 p.m.

     Glickman has made food recovery, or gleaning, his top personal
priority since becoming Secretary of Agriculture.  It estimated that up to
20 percent of all food annually produced in the U.S. for human consumption
goes to waste.  At the same time thousands of people in Kansas and across
the country go hungry.

     Secretary Glickman also will deliver the Eisenhower Lecture at Wichita
State University.  The lecture will take place in Wiedeman Hall on Alumni
Drive at 12 p.m.

                                
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