By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net
The need was unprecedented most 2020, and while there’s light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, Doug Cowan doesn’t foresee the need slackening much going into 2021.
The president and CEO of the Community Services League estimates that his organization distributed enough boxes of food for 4 million meals for Eastern Jackson County families since the pandemic took off in the U.S. in mid-March.
While that total was greatly augmented by several distribution days with the “Farmers to Families” program funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, it’s still more than double what CSL would normally distribute in a year.