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Pueblo County needs volunteers for food distribution program Volunteers are needed for the Commodities Program. and last updated 2021-07-08 21:10:30-04 PUEBLO COUNTY — Pueblo County needs help addressing a critical need. Volunteers are needed for the Commodities Program, which helps to distribute more than three million pounds of food per year to people in need. "Since COVID started, we lost most of our volunteers because they are elderly. So we are always looking for volunteers to help us fill those spots, fill the cars with boxes, to help us build the boxes, to help us deliver," Prog...

How temporary SNAP boost will aid residents, local Albany economy FacebookTwitterEmail 8 1of8Buy PhotoSNAP recipient Moneique Ballou stands outside her apartment building in Arbor Hill on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less 2of8Buy PhotoSNAP recipient Moneique Ballou stands outside her apartment building in Arbor Hill on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less 4of8Buy PhotoSNAP recipient Moneique Ballou stands outside h...

Program, as well as our commodities program. those dollars put fuel in the trucks and cover the staff of those who are distributing the commodities to our agencies. over a million dollars in cuts on meals on wheels programs, and while our state has only gained nearly 25,000 jobs in the first nine months, we've seen 6,000 new claims for unemployment. again, folks are not making it. they have not been making it as this unending great recession continues, and now it's just compacting the problem that we are seeing more people who are needing food more frequently. >> lisa, one of the reasons we wa...