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Snackpac program helps keep school kids in need from going hungry on weekends

23, Sep 2014

September 19, 2014

Snackpac program helps keep school kids in need from going hungry on weekends

Pictured above: Jamieson Students assist Penny
Powell with unloading the food backpacks.

…Backpack food programs pick up where federally-funded free and reduced-price school lunch programs leave off. The concept is simple. Children whose families have a difficult time feeding them during the week probably have a difficult time feeding them on Saturdays and Sundays. The programs provide healthy, easy-to-prepare, non-perishable items to children who may not have enough, or any, food over the weekend.

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