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Story Archives: Food bank survives 2009; outlook uncertain for 2010


Food bank survives 2009; outlook uncertain for 2010
by Scott Rogers - posted Thursday, December 24th, 2009 @ 12:00 amE-mail Story E-mail Story | Print Story Print Story 
Despite an increase in demand throughout 2009, and a cut in state funding, the Northeast Louisiana Food Bank has been able to maintain services for local residents.

NELA Food Bank director Richard King, while optimistic about next year, believes 2010 will provide plenty of challenges for the agency.

The food bank set a record in 2009 in the amount of food distributed throughout the region by providing roughly 3.6 million pounds of food.

For the full report, see Page 7A of this week's Citizen.

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