Talked with Mary Lou Hufflink, director of the Fall Mountain Food Shelf, after reading the lead story in today's Keene Sentinel. The Food Shelf served 598 families in June and that number rose to 658 families in July. Families, not people. August numbers are not tallied yet. A year ago the Food Shelf was pressed to serve about 300 families per month. Food supplies are very short, supplies of cash to buy it are short, and the numbers of hungry people in the Fall Mountain area continues to rise. Hufflink says she can use donations of nearly every kind of food from canned goods to fresh garden harvests. Please call Mary Lou in Alstead at 835-2283. CCB
