The Herald Bulletin - 6:30 p.m.: Food bank to add delivery fee Aug. 1

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At the Operation Love food pantry Wednesday is their busy day as they offer "client choice" service to provide a week's worth of food to each client. Operation Love serves up to 3,000 clients a month with their pantry.
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Volunteer Richard Wisner helps this client with her choices as she goes through the food pantry at Operation Love.
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Operation Love serves up to 3,000 clients a month and buys an average of 6,255 pounds of food per month from Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Indiana.
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6:30 p.m.: Food bank to add delivery fee Aug. 1

By Rick Teverbaugh

“All of the agencies I have been in contact with recently can’t keep the food on their shelves,” said the United Way’s Vaughan. “Their demand is so great. Everybody’s doing what they can.”

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No free lunch

On Aug. 1, Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana will impose a delivery fee of $25 on food shipments of less than 900 pounds and $50 on shipments of 900 pounds or more. Second Harvest relocated from Anderson to Muncie in late 2007 and still serves 25 Madison County agencies that operate food pantries and kitchens:

• Alexandria Emergency Relief, Alexandria

• Alexandria Community Center, Alexandria

• First Pentecostal Church, Anderson

• First United Methodist Church, Anderson

• St. John’s Lutheran Church, Anderson

• Salvation Army, Anderson

• Alternatives Inc., Anderson

• House of Hope, Anderson

• Gateway Association, Anderson

• East Lynn Christian Church, Anderson

• Operation Love Inc., Anderson

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