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Packing Food Boxes for the Needy at Mountaire Farms

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Around 74-hundred boxes of chicken, canned and dry goods were packed yesterday at Mountaire Farms in Selbyville by volunteers that will go out to roughly 60 churches, shelters, food pantries and social service agencies on Delmarva.

That’s 500 boxes more than last year.

Roger Marino, corporate director of community relations for the company, told the Wilmington News Journal that when he started 19 years ago they packed only 300 boxes.

Now, he said there are 1-thousand people on the waiting list for the boxes adding that the economic downturn has increased demand over the years.

And, he says, many people needing assistance were actually doing well but were then caught in the economic crunch.

Don Rush is the News Director at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.