It’s a Wednesday afternoon at the Sunnyside Food Market in Colorado Springs, a no-cost grocery program run by Care and Share Food Bank. The line is out the door.
The number of people relying on the market is steadily growing, according to volunteer Mary Lasch. That’s just as the quantity of food on the shelves is shrinking.
“Seeing the increase in the line of people that are coming versus the food that we are able to distribute, we really have to balance that so we can make sure that every person that comes in gets something to take home,” she said…