Mystic―Always Home’s HEART TO HEART Gala, to be held at 6 p.m. on April 21, at the Mystic Marriott Hotel & Spa, will honor supporters Betty and Bill Smith and commemorate the organization’s 25 yea.
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many who struggle to pay for their thanksgiving dinners rely on food banks to get their meals. last year more than 53 million americans needed food help to get by according to feeding america, and now many of those food banks say they re seeing even more people coming in for help. joining us now is tricia cunningham. thank you so much for being with us on this thanksgiving. many food banks are reporting that inflation has hit them really hard, and of course, more families are needing assistance. what are you seeing? we re seeing the exact same thing. back in march of this year, we started seeing the needs increase and we ve seen a 17% increase from march through this year. we re distributing at levels even higher than the pandemic. during the pandemic, we were probably providing access on average to a little over 10 million meals per month. that is now up to 12.3 million