Countywide Food Drive Aims to Cover Mid-Year Gaps
The Loudoun Board of Supervisors deems May Hunger Awareness Month
Loudoun County residents on average consistently have among the highest incomes in the country, but like every community, some residents fall upon hard times on occasion. While the numbers may not be as high in Loudoun as in some neighboring jurisdictions, plenty of people in the county go without, particularly as the country has struggled to recover from a recession. And that’s a reality that can be hard to imagine in the county’s manicured suburbia. “I had no idea at all that this was a problem in Loudoun County. I was a oblivious,” said Annette Brennan during a recent Loudoun Board of Supervisors meeting. But Brennan, a member of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Sterling, said she learned more and now volunteers for programs like Back …
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Jonathan Erickson
11:39 am on Thursday, April 26, 2012
I wonder if the Master Gardener's are going to be able to donate their 2000 pounds of fresh produce to the Loudoun Interfaith Relief this year. more ›