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The East Texas Food Bank is working hard to provide meals to those who need them amid the coronavirus.
“Right now it’s a godsend to a lot of families,” Dennis Cullinane, CEO of East Texas Food Bank, said. “We got a good variety of items that are in here they are all shelf stable items we got some oatmeal, lentils and whole grain pasta.”
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The T.L.L. Temple Foundation is partnering with the East Texas Food Bank to distribute emergency food assistance boxes from 4-7 p.m. Thursday and next Tuesday at 105 Lofton St.
“East Texas has some of the highest rates of food insecurity in the state,” said Wynn Rosser, foundation president and CEO. “We have large numbers of children, especially, that are food insecure and rely on the meal programs that our schools provide.”
(Read this story from Lufkin Daily News)