Rediscovering home: Food bank adjusts to challenges
The Community Food Bank of Mineral County stands between 85 Mineral County families and homelessness.
The food bank serves as a stopgap for families whose financial condition falls short of providing for all their needs. Families receive three meals a day for three days a week. They must provide for the other four days however they can. Rose Duncan, secretary-treasurer of the Community Food Bank of Mineral County board, told me that surveys divulge that without the food bank, those families would have to take money from their rent or utilities. No rent, no home.
The food bank has had to overcome many challenges in the 33 years since its inception in 1991. The cancellation of a federal grant presents a new and great challenge, but volunteers, led by Rose, stand ready to meet that challenge.
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