CHUM Food Shelf Sees Record Demand in 2020, Year Ahead Looks No Better
The food shelf served more than 16,000 people in 2020, and staff expects the need to go up as much as 20% in 2021.
DULUTH, Minn.- The effects of the Coronavirus pandemic left more than 15,000 people in the Twin Ports to rely on CHUM’s Food Shelf to put food on the table — an increased demand they haven’t seen in more than a decade. “In my tenure it was a pretty big record setting year on my terms,” Distributive Services Director Scott Van…