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Why are food pantries empty while the food bank is full?

Some cupboards ran bare this week at St. Ignatius Loyola Parish's food pantry in Hicksville. While there was enough pasta, rice and canned food to last a few more days, the next visitors would have to hope for donations from a local bakery to fill their grocery bags.

"It depends on the good will of the Lord," said Joe Samodulski, director of human services at the St. Ignatius Human Services...

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