FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MEDIA ADVISORY

Roadrunner Food Bank

CONTACT: Ann Powers

505-349-8682

505-681-2780 (cell)

ROADRUNNER FOOD BANK

ANNOUNCES 2008-2009 BOARD SLATE

Albuquerque, NM - March 7, 2008 – Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico announces its recent election of Board of Directors, with Lydia Ashanin, Corporate Affairs, Health Care Service Corporation continuing her tenure as Board Chair.  Perry Bendicksen III, Shareholder with Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, Schreck LLP, is the Chair Elect.  Barbara Allender, community volunteer, is newly-elected Secretary.  John deGraauw, PCS Regional Manager with Wells Fargo Bank, is Treasurer.  Immediate Past Chair is Kathy Komoll of Avanti Corporate Services. 

Board Chair Lydia Ashanin says she is confident the new RRFB 2008-2009 board will achieve great success in feeding even more hungry New Mexicans.  

“Roadrunner Food Bank is poised to make a quantum leap in our ability to provide more services to vulnerable and underserved populations in New Mexico,” said Ashanin. “I believe this slate of directors is uniquely qualified to move Roadrunner Food Bank significantly closer to achieving our mission of ending hunger in New Mexico.”

Directors-at-Large are Becky Burwinkle, VP, Treasury Management, Bank of America; Pamela Chavez, Director of Community Relations, Don Chalmers Ford; Steve Ciepiela, Principal/Owner, Charles Stephen and Company, Inc.; Mary Alice Collatz, Co-owner, Tiffany Homes; Frank Fine, Executive Director, American Luggage Dealers Association; Debbie Hartz, Vice-President of Administration & Corporate Secretary, NM Mutual; Carol O’Neal, Logistics Manager, General Mills; Robert M. Scott, Owner, Spirit Halloween Super Stores.

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Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico is New Mexico’s largest non-profit organization dedicated to ending hunger.  Through its statewide network of 600 partner agencies and six regional food banks, Roadrunner Food Bank distributes more than 16 million pounds of food annually to approximately 240,000 New Mexicans in need.  Every dollar donated yields $12 worth of food.  Roadrunner Food Bank is the only New Mexico member of America’s Second Harvest—the Nation’s Food Bank Network.  In the 28 years since it was founded, Roadrunner Food Bank has distributed more than 165 million pounds of food statewide.  For more information about Roadrunner Food Bank and its programs visit www.rrfb.org