Catholic Charities and the Department of Children and Families will hold a Community Outreach Food Distribution event from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 24 for Columbia, Hamilton, Lafayette, Suwannee and Union counties.

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Traffic never slows at the M&M Food Store as customers stock up on 35-cent pop, bread, Little Debbie’s snacks and handfuls of apples.

IDABEL — Traffic never slows at the M&M Food Store as customers stock up on 35-cent pop, bread, Little Debbie’s snacks and handfuls of apples.”Is that with cash or a card?” cashier Mandy Baxter asks each customer.But no one puts forth a credit or debit card.If it’s plastic, it’s likely food stamps.”Around here, it’s more common than cash,” Baxter said. “It helps our economy. We still have …

Only about half (48 percent) of those eligible in California for food stamps took advantage of them in 2007.

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Ella has held on to her dignity despite living off food parcels while caring for her children. The Otara mother said the recession is adding to the burden that she already carries. “Two or three years ago, it wasn’t [like] this but the struggle we have now – but the power, the water – it is always threatened that they will cut it,” Ella said. Her son and daughter, aged 42 and 38 respectively, get out of the house three times a week when they travel to hospital for dialysis. “I’ve got pride but I swallowed it. Where would I go?” Ella, who did not want to give her last name, said her neighbour now comes over to borrow a glass of milk or some sugar. She said sometimes the neighbour’s kids don’t go to school because they have no lunch. She said she tries to share her food parcels with her neighbours who are also now in a desperate situation. Ella said the price of food has gone up and she now finds herself looking in the “rejects bin”. “I can’t buy a bag like I used to. Not only is it expensive, the quality is not as good as it used to,” Ella said. Tears came to her eyes as she described opening the door to “an angel” with a food parcel last week. “I tell you, I just stood there to eat. I was so hungry,” Ella said. But sometimes it is worse than that. “I go to the cupboard and there is nothing. “Sometimes if it’s an orange it is split between the two. Whereas before, it was an orange each, not anymore,” Ella said. She said she once had faith in the new National Government but …

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