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Food hard to come by for some families on Thanksgiving
Food stamp cuts making it hard to cook holiday meals
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Some of the 26 pallets of collected food headed to the local Salvation Army on Dorsey Street are staged Wednesday at the Georgia Mountain Food Bank. - photo by NAT GURLEY
For some Gainesville residents such as Lisa, buying food for Thanksgiving means saving her food stamp money so she can contribute to her family’s meal. She’s not alone. Lisa, whom The Times agreed not to identify, is one of the monthly average of 30,477 Hall County residents who received SNAP benefits in 2012, and one of the 31,888 who got assistance in September.