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Volunteers loaded 288 food boxes at a distribution event at the Leechburg Fire Hall along Canal Street on Saturday afternoon.
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Jason Haigh of Gilpin and Brandon Lucas of Leechburg load two food boxes into a vehicle Saturday during the USDA Farmers to Families free food giveaway at Leechburg Fire Hall on Canal Street. They gave away 288 boxes.
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A Leechburg church has partnered with a Lower Burrell- area nonprofit to ensure food supply is not a problem in future free distributions.
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Volunteer Cyndi Penman of Leechburg informs people arriving Saturday for a food giveaway at Kiski Valley Community Church that the distribution was again cancelled.
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For the second Saturday in a row, people who showed up to receive food from churches in Leechburg and New Kensington went home empty handed.
The pastors of Kiski Valley Community Church and The River church in New Kensington were forced to cancel the drive-thru food distributions because the food delivery truck didn’t arrive on time.
More than 50 people who lined up Saturday to receive free food in Leechburg went home empty-handed. A drive-thru food distribution, sponsored by Kiski Valley Community Church in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families Food Box program and the nonprofit Convoy of Hope, was canceled this
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Several food and clothing distributions are planned Saturday in the Alle-Kiski Valley:
Free Pot Love luncheon planned Saturday
Cross Roads Community Presbyterian Church free takeout monthly Pot Love Dinner will begin at noon Saturday at the church, 271 Main St., Leechburg. Is your food budget is stretched thin? A warm welcome and a hot, nutritious free meal is waiting for you.
Volunteers at a food distribution event Saturday in Leechburg swiftly doled out more than 600 boxes of fresh meat, yogurt and produce to people struggling with basic needs nearly a year into the lingering covid-19 pandemic. “The lines are crazy,” said volunteer Reilly Sullivan, 15. “We take for granted how