BATON ROUGE — Thousands of people showed up to the East Baton Rouge Parish Council on Aging’s drive-thru food giveaway event on Monday, hosted as the government shutdown continues and Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program benefits remain suspended.
Council on Aging’s event attracted a large crowd, with cars from the drive-thru spilling into the road.
“The police said we backed up both sides of the interstate and all streets coming into the neighborhood,” Council on Aging’s CEO Tasha Clark-Amar said…