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Apr 6, 2004

"What we're trying to do is create possibilities. So I would say the end result of this is really unknown and I don't know that we've made a huge change. I know and believe that we've created possibility." --Pamela Kroner

Family To Family

All thanks to a mom reading her morning New York Times, a wealthy community in Hastings is now adopting a poverty stricken town in Illinois, one family at a time. "I said 'What do you need?' And he said, 'I was hoping for a miracle.' And I said, 'Well, I'm not a miracle but what do you need?,' " Koner recalled. "And he said, 'Well our people here the last week of the month, the food pantry runs out. Our people here are starving. I said, 'I've got an idea. How about if I find a family in my community to adopt a family in yours and we create family-to-family?' And that's how it began," Pamela Kroner said.