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Article: Food Bank Business Is Jumping
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 28, 1991
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The wiry man with the furrowed brow and frazzled look scurried
about his work area, pushing one cart of food after another onto the
scales at Capital Area Community Food Bank. "We're not geared for
this; we don't have the personnel to handle it," muttered Eugene
Brake.
The woman with the scarf around her hair and the cup of steaming
coffee in her hand watched and waited for Brake to weigh her order.
"I need cereal," said Wanda Mathis, a nutritionist for a Northeast
girls' home. She found boxes to go with the rest of her selection
for the home: canned soup, canned peaches and fruit cocktail,
packaged pizza mixes, four frozen turkeys, frozen spinach, canned
orange juice, canned meat and ...