Food Bank of North Central Arkansas providing final free summer meal to youth

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     The Food Bank of North Central Arkansas, partnering with Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance, will be providing their final free summer meal for area youth Wednesday.

     Nancy Conley, Communications Director with Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance, has the details.


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     According to the Alliance, more than 185,000 children in Arkansas depend on school lunches for their meals and when they don’t get the proper nutrition, they lose the ability to retain the information they have learned from the previous year.


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     Wednesday’s free meal will be the last one of the summer as school starts next week for Baxter County Students, but the Alliance will continue to work through the school year.


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     The final free meal of the summer will be at the L.C. Sammons Youth Center will be Wednesday from 11:30 to 12:30.



      

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