
The Weekend Read: Esther Linder on food insecurity
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Roseland McKay's Linda Hall in the Yara Rangers
Volunteers collect food that would have otherwise been thrown out. The group supports roughly 250 people over two days of food drives and breakfast programs with regular fundraising days. Andrew Philip Gautier, a warm and energetic man in his 50s dressed head to toe in black, is busy organizing boxes when I arrive. He says the people it serves are as varied as the towns I drove through on my way here. It's a great divide of middle income people who are now sort of the working poor and then you've got the people that are living on the edges, he tells me. They don't ask for people to prove they are in need but simply accept that someone showing up means they
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