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On October 31, when kids were trick-or-treating throughout the North Shore, the region’s food pantries were facing an emergency. Within hours, SNAP benefits for millions of people across the country would go dry, and already, food pantries were feeling the effects. “We had some of our largest days and our largest mobile sites that we’ve ever had, and that’s all in anticipation of what’s going to happen,” says Robyn Burns, executive director of The Salem Pantry. Food insecurity is high and growing, requiring hunger relief organizations’ food storage and distribution systems to be as robust and efficient as possible. That’s w
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