Six stressed food banks benefit from 40,000-pound load delivered to Modesto

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Six days into the lapse in federal food aid, a semi pulled up outside a Modesto church with about 40,000 pounds of groceries.

Thursday’s delivery will help six food banks meet the increased demand resulting from the federal government shutdown, which now has lasted well more than a month…

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