Nixon expands Share the Harvest program that donates deer meat
Thursday, November 12, 2009 | 8:33 a.m. CST;
updated 2:29 p.m. CST, Thursday, November 12, 2009
BY
The Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Jay Nixon is calling attention to a program that lets deer hunters share their venison with people in need of a meal.
Nixon
scheduled news conferences Thursday in Ashland, St. Louis and Sedalia
to announce an expansion of the Share the Harvest program. The governor
was to be joined by the executive director of the Conservation
Federation of Missouri.
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Last year, nearly 4,700 Missouri
hunters donated almost 263,000 pounds of venison to be processed and
distributed to people in need of meat. But in recent years, the program
has had to cap the amount of deer it can accept from hunters because of
limited finances.
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