A food pantry’s closure means more than lost meals for hundreds of families [washingtonpost.com]
By Kyle Swenson, Photo: Nathan Morgan/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, April 18, 2022 It was Friday, and for more than a decade, Fridays had been when the food deliveries arrived. Around 15,000 pounds of food were expected this morning. Volunteers were hauling the first boxes off a truck. Stacy Downey, 52, was determined, if possible, to treat this day like any other, so she was now standing outside the Little Food Pantry That Could, shoulders hunched against the morning cold,...