Hundreds of local families received vital food assistance on Wednesday as Mercy Chefs, a nonprofit disaster relief organization, distributed 500 boxes of meals to furloughed government workers and military families at Naval Station Norfolk.
The event was part of Mercy Chefs’ “Feed the Force” initiative, an effort to ensure no service member or government employee goes hungry during the ongoing government shutdown.
Henry Graham, a supervisor at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard and a Chesapeake resident, was among those in line. For him, the relief was sorely needed…