Fraught scene over discarded food at Portland Fred Meyer highlights hunger, challenges of distribution in storm
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The fraught situation at the Hollywood Fred Meyer brought home that people are going hungry in Oregon.
At Portland Public Schools, nutrition services staffers normally provide grab-and-go meals for neighborhood children on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. But those distributions were canceled Friday due to snow and Monday for President’s Day, leaving families that count on those meals short. Beaumont Middle School, one of the district’s meal sites, is about two miles northeast of the Hollywood Fred Meyer.