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Food programs help families make ends meet
Nearly 23,000 Hall County residents are unsure where they will find their next meal
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Roasted turkeys cool before they are picked clean Wednesday morning at Riverbend Baptist Church. Volunteers from the church, as well as other area churches, prepared the annual Good News at Noon Thanksgiving meal in the church's larger kitchen.
Brenda Vargas is thankful today that two of her children who attend Fair Street Elementary in Gainesville receive free lunches every school day. “It helps a lot, especially for people like me,” she said. Vargas, 30, works and goes to school to support her three children — Angel, 10, Miah, 6, and Nathan, 3 — and provide them a better life.