Commissioners name recipients of nearly $1 million in food aid

Jason Davis adds items to the grocery bags as Rena Davis tells him how many members are a part of the family she is speaking to. Asha Blake/ The Portager.

Commissioners name recipients of nearly $1 million in food aid

- Wendy DiAlesandro

Portage County’s Board of Commissioners learned in February that the federal government was cutting SNAP’s Emergency Allotment program at the end of the month. Appalled, they took matters into their own hands.

They couldn’t change the federal government’s policies, but they could, and now have, made sure almost $1 million of county ARPA funds will benefit county food programs.

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