Local volunteers providing food boxes to families in need
Knowing food can be scarce for Valencia County families and sometimes even harder to come by during the pandemic, local volunteers and organizations are making use of a federal program to get nutritious, fresh food into the hands of those who need it most. On Friday, Feb. 5, a semi truck hauling 1,300 boxes of food was met by a small army of volunteers from local churches, businesses and community centers to distribute the food across the county. The boxes come from the Farmers to Families Food Box Program, a USDA grant program that partners with national, regional and local distributors, to ...
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