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The phone erupted with noise just after midnight. Ilene Hills of Healthy Appetites Natural Foods was in Florida caring for her elderly mother when she got a flood of text messages.
“I couldn’t figure out what was going on,” she recalled last week, now back at the store in Camelot Industrial Park. “My phone was going crazy!”
Then Hills read one of the messages and let out a loud whoop: “You’re on Colbert!” Healthy Appetites had just received an on-air endorsement on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and her friends were all letting her know they had seen it.
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Like parents everywhere, one immigrant mother in Plymouth was concerned about her twin children. Were they getting enough food? Were they safe and protected? Were they keeping warm in the winter chill?
With the economic downturn brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, she was finding it difficult to make ends meet and was worried she was not adequately providing for her youngsters. Health Imperatives, however, was there to help.
The Plymouth office of the regional agency dedicated to improving the health and well-being of low-income or vulnerable families and individuals donated 19 new winter coats to children in the community. Two of them went to the twins of this concerned mother.