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Article: Mentally, Physically Challenged Workers in North Carolina Box Milk for Needy.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- July 22, 2003
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By Howie Paul Hartnett, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 22--BREVARD, N.C.--Sometimes, Taylor Love admits, it's hard standing still eight hours a day folding cardboard boxes.
But the 22-year-old knows that what he does helps feed the poor.
The 5,000 boxes he and his co-workers make every day are filled with small packages of dry milk.
"We have to send them to people who don't have any milk," he said.
Love and other mentally and physically challenged employees at Transylvania Vocational Services have shipped 1.3 million pounds of dry milk a month to food banks in 173 cities and 42 states ...