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Volunteers ask Jasper County for building, refrigeration and reimbursement for food pantry
Summary
Volunteers with the Jasper County Hunger Free Zone told the council they lost pantry equipment, serve hundreds to thousands of families from drive-through distributions, and need a permanent building and refrigeration to qualify for additional food-bank programs.
Carolyn Smith, who identified herself as a volunteer with the Jasper County Hunger Free Zone, told the council the group's pantry lost equipment and that without a physical facility they cannot accept certain donations from the food bank that require on-site refrigeration and storage.
"We were serving over a thousand people families…
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