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KINGSTON — The Al Beech West Side Food Pantry used to be a small operation utilizing the stage of a church, but COVID-19 has increased need so much it has turned into a sophisticated drive-thru operation catering to hundreds of families from all over Northeast Pennsylvania. The Commission for Economic Opportunity, which supplies much of the food distributed, has delivered 73 percent more food to local food banks this year compared to last year. “If you compare 2019 to 2020, the amount of food we’d go through in an entire month is now gone in two to three hours of distribution,” said Clancy Harrison, a dietician who is the volunteer president of the food pantry and founder of the nonprofit Food Dignity Project.

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