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Area food banks to get $46K infusion
State divvies out funds to help feed low-income families
California's food banks just got an extra helping with $1 million in state money - $46,000 of which will go to fill Santa Clara and San Mateo counties' food pantries.Tuesday, the state's Department of Social Services announced that the money would be released to feed California's low-income families.
Working with statewide food bank organizations, Assemblyman Jim Beall Jr., D-San Jose, helped free $1 million remaining from an emergency fund set aside in 2007 for the state's citrus freeze disaster. The bill that set up the fund specified that any unused money would be used for emergency food needs.
Santa Clara and San Mateo counties' share of the money will help pay for 390,000 to 1.7 million pounds of California-grown produce, according to Jessica Bartholow, director of programs for the California Association of Food.
Both the association and California Emergency Foodlink enlisted Beall to assist them in tapping funds to aid food pantries, hard hit by the souring economy, rising unemployment and high gas prices.
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