Manna Food Bank to receive weekly donations from Wal-Mart

The East Texas Food Bank has started a new program where Manna, the food pantry located in Canton, and Shining Light Food Pantry in Wills Point will assume the donation pickup from the Canton Wal-Mart. Each food pantry will pick up Wal-Mart donations twice a week. East Texas Food Bank donated $575 for the purchase of a freezer in which to keep meat and an electronic scale.

This is a blessing to Manna who previously had to purchase meat from East Texas Food Bank but received 150 pounds on their first pickup from Wal-Mart, food bank officials said.

Manna also doesn’t regularly obtain produce but was told by East Texas Food Bank that the Canton Wal-Mart donated an average of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds of produce a month in 2015.

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