On the first Monday morning of November, a seemingly endless stream of cars lined up outside the East Baton Rouge Council on Aging’s (EBRCOA) building on 18th Street.
They were all there for the same reason: a food drive organized to help families impacted by the ongoing government shutdown and the halting of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds at the end of the previous week.
Tasha Clark Amar, the head of the EBRCOA, was guiding traffic, and later helped hand out boxes of food filled with fruits, vegetables, meats and pantry staples. She said people started lining up in cars as early as 4 a.m. So many of them, in fact, that they had to start giving out food early…