Huge need for Thanksgiving food donations
Photo credit: Ed Betz | Pat Westlake, director of the Smithtown Emergency Food Pantry in Smithtown, stands near empty bins that would normally be full of food for distribution for Thanksgiving. (Nov. 15, 2012)
Thanksgiving in Long Beach
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Sandy's impact on Long Island
With more families in crisis and donations down, Long Island food pantries and relief volunteers are going into overdrive to provide Thanksgiving meals, especially for residents struggling in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy.
"Now our agencies are reporting that they have not just their regular amount of people that are coming for food support, but the numbers are increasing dramatically,"...
