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Fighting food insecurity and food intolerance A food drive on Wednesday in Luzerne County took on two problems facing many people in our area—food insecurity and food intolerance. Author: Chelsea Strub Updated: 4:47 PM EDT March 31, 2021 KINGSTON, Pa. — Car after car lined up outside the Al Beech West Side Food Pantry in Kingston for a food distribution. Pantry President Clancy Harrison says this is nothing like the distributions before the pandemic. "It's a little bit different now. We try to cater to the needs of our guests, but we've increased from 150 t...

KINGSTON — The Al Beech West Side Food Pantry used to be a small operation utilizing the stage of a church, but COVID-19 has increased need so much it has turned into a sophisticated drive-thru operation catering to hundreds of families from all over Northeast Pennsylvania. The Commission for Economic Opportunity, which supplies much of the food distributed, has delivered 73 percent more food to local food banks this year compared to last year. “If you compare 2019 to 2020, the amount of food we’d go through in an entire month is now gone in two to three hours of distribution,�...