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An early-morning delivery had volunteers scrambling to unload $5,000 worth of groceries designated for a food pantry at Grace Episcopal Church.
For the second consecutive year, members of the Port Orange Family Days Community Trust presented church officials with approximately 11,000 pounds of boxed and canned food that will help provide meals for residents in need during the holiday season.
The groceries were purchased at cost from the Walmart Supercenter on Dunlawton Avenue with money generated by Family Days, an annual event that takes place at City Center Circle.
"The food we're giving today came from the nearly 70,000 people who turned out for the 2009 Family Days festival," John Evans, president of the Family Days organization, said Monday. "They made these contributions possible, and we want them to know that it is because of them that others in the community can get a helping hand in these hard times."
Members of Grace Episcopal Church, 4110 S. Ridgewood Ave., maintain the food pantry as part of its participation with Halifax Urban Ministries, which was started in 1980 by the Halifax Area Ministerial Association to assist the hungry, homeless and low-income people in Volusia and Flagler counties.
With a 2009 goal of providing 350 tons of food to qualified recipients, the food drive is supported by congregations and members from about 40 area churches, along with civic and veterans organizations.
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