“People need food”: Local food bank struggling to stock shelves forced to turn people away

SPOKANE — Hungry families who rely on donations to keep food on the table are wondering where their next meal will come from after a local food pantry struggling to keep the shelves stocked was temporarily forced to close its doors.

The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center food bank in Spokane’s East Central neighborhood closed its doors Wednesday because it simply didn’t have enough supplies to give out.

“There’s really nothing that we could give out today that we haven’t already given them,” said Freda Gandy, Executive Director of the MLK Jr. Community Center…

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