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<div class="x_WordSection1 elementToProof"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Attached please find the Service Center’s May grocery list for your use as we turn the calendar to May on Monday.</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">175,000 pounds of food were distributed to 4,000 individuals during the months of March and April.</span></strong><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">
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</span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Just this week, we served 620 households, including those families who visited our mobile market at Joint Base Cape Cod on April 26. </span></strong><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">
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</span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">In the first four months of the year, 25% (or 440 households) of the 1781 households picking up groceries were new to our FSC programs.</span></strong><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">
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</span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">The Service Center provided $84,681 in financial assistance to 68 Falmouth households, largely in support of their housing and utilities,
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</span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(226, 80, 65);">The annual Letter Carriers Food Drive, Stamp Out Hunger, will be held on Saturday, May 13, 2023.</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">
Please encourage your neighbors and friends to use the grocery list below and to leave these items for their postal carriers on that Saturday morning. All donations will be delivered to the Service Center that afternoon.</span></strong><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; background: white; text-align: start;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">We are proud and grateful to live in such a generous community, and we thank you especially
for supporting our neighbors in need.</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; background: white; text-align: start;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Best, Sharon and the entire FSC staff team</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Sharon Howard</span></p>
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