The sixth Dignity Day featured more vendors and communities, with Urban Strategies Council and St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Vallejo Peace Project, D’s Mobile Cuts, Fighting Back Partnership, PB Vallejo, The Edge Community Church, Vallejo Mobile Health, and ARN NorCal all taking part.
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The pandemic left Bay Area families hungry and food banks overwhelmed. The Season of Sharing stepped in to help [San Francisco Chronicle]
Dec. 16 Just before noon on a recent Wednesday, a line of three dozen people snaked around the Church of the Nazarene in Concord. They were young and old, men and women of all races, one child kicking the ground as he waited. What they had in common: They needed free food.
At the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano distribution site, truck driver Will Gregory organized tables piled with bags of pears and potatoes. Driver David Bosuego hoisted boxes packed with pasta, peanut butter and canned peaches into the shopping carts of elderly women. This year, they and others at food banks across the Bay Area saw lines lengthen as millions lost jobs during the pandemic.
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