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The City of Elizabethtown, in partnership with Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland, will be hosting their second mobile food pantry event this Friday at the Elizabethtown Sports Park.
The giveaway will begin at noon, with food distributed until it runs out.
Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregory said during the November 3 Elizabethtown City Council meeting the city was aiming to provide meals for 1,000 households at each of three planned feeding events.
“We encourage anybody that’s struggling, or especially since we’re having the shutdown, the government shutdown, and people are losing some of their benefits, we’re going to try to compensate for that a little bit and see if we can hand out some food each Friday for the next three weeks,” Gregory said.
Council Member Julia Springsteen said over 5,000 households in Hardin County depend on SNAP benefits.
“The announcement today was that they’ll only get partial funding for SNAP this month, so they’re already struggling,” Springsteen said. “They’re going to struggle a little bit more, in addition to the government workers who are going to pay, so hopefully this will help a few people in addition to the other efforts going on in the community.”
The city says no identification is needed. Residents in need can simply drive through the sports park parking lot beginning at noon on Friday and city employees will load the boxes into their cars. Participants should enter through the West Park Road entrance and exit onto Saint John Road.
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