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Article: Ewing leaves Maryland Food Bank
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- The Daily Record (Baltimore)
- Article date:
- November 22, 2006
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When William Ewing steps away from his job as executive director
of the Maryland Food Bank next February, he'll be leaving behind a
$25 million-a-year operation that feeds nearly 50,000 people each
week.
For Ewing, leaving the 87,000-square-foot warehouse in Baltimore
is a bittersweet experience.
When the food bank first opened in 1979, it was the first of its
kind on the East Coast and the third in the country.
"I could never have imagined when I volunteered to help a few
people get a food bank started in a small building, that what we have
today would be possible and, frankly, needed," he said.
The food bank is a distribution center that provides food to a
network of homeless shelters, ...