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A 5-year lease is negotiated for a 3,000 sq. ft. of space on Dielman Rock Island Drive.

OFS leases space at 710 Hanley Industrial Court with 500 sq. ft. of office space and 1,100 sq. ft. of warehouse space.

Springsteen holds a concert in St. Louis and personally donates $10,000. He makes a personal appeal on behalf of Operation Food Search to those in…

OFS distributes 200,000 lbs. of food each month, serving 106 pantries. The Hunger Hotline receives 1,957 calls.

May 13, 1981: Recognizing that hunger relief must be handled in a business-like manner, we are incorporated as Operation Search, a Not-For­Profit Corporation. 1981 $400,000…

Henry Leissing (who eventually becomes our Community Organizer), State Representative Patrick Daugherty and Rev. Robert Tabscott, Presbyterian minister in Des Peres, join forces to organize…

Roger Dierberg is working in his office above Dierbergs Four Seasons store, when a former priest named Henry Leissing stops in with an idea. He…