“We just want people who need food to know we are here for them,” she stressed. “And we don’t want people to let pride stand in the way of a need. Our goal is to make sure no one goes hungry.”

March is Food Shelf Month, so the Echo Press contacted the local food shelf, which has been in existence since 1982, to find out more about what it does, how the community can help and how many people it serves each year.

In the last 10 years, the Douglas County Food Shelf has helped nearly 62,000 people – that’s about to six times the population of Alexandria.

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