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Northshore October 2025
Since 2017, the Salem nonprofit Root has fed the community both literally and figuratively, graduating 124 young people from its 14-week food service job training and life skills program, while also putting those students and alumni to work in its BONS-winning catering and event space services, its café, and at its free monthly “Meet and Eat” community meal program. Root’s Executive Director M. Scott Knox But on March 13, 2020, the COVID-19 shutdown forced Root to hit pause on its programs, even though the community’s needs were greater than ever: restaurants were shuttered, vulnerable people couldn’t venture out to the groce
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