The Brief
- A Shore Acres resident who served meals after last year’s storms from his yard is turning it into a non-profit.
- Matt Thorn plans to help anyone in need year-round.
- He hopes to have the Relief Market and Grille non-profit up and running by the end of November.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Thursday marks one year since Hurricane Milton hit an already storm-ravaged Tampa Bay Area.
Following Milton and Hurricane Helene, Matt Thorn started serving meals and handing out supplies to the community from his front yard in Shore Acres. He called it the Relief Market and Grille.
“I was doing roughly about 300, 400 meals a day during the hurricanes,” he said.
Thorn said in the five months after the storms, he served nearly 25,000 meals. In January, he started the process of turning the Relief Market and Grille into a non-profit, and 3 Daughters Brewing gave him a food truck to use.
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