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THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2012
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LACONIA — The food shelves are practically bare at the Laconia Area Center for the Community Action Program on Route 106 and Director Bob Adams is concerned.
Standing in the storage area for canned goods, Adams holds his hand out about waist high to show how high the stacks of bulk food made available through the U.S. Department of Agriculture used to be. “It’s pretty darn crazy,” he
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said. The Community Action Program of Merrimack-Belknap County is the distribution center for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s surplus food program. Typically, said Adams, he gets cases of spa-
ghetti, spaghetti sauce, corn flakes, canned peaches, and peanut butter plus cases of whole frozen chickens, mixed vegetables and fresh tomatoes. June’s distribution to the Laconia area was reduced by about see FOOD page 15
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name “Waukewan Watershed Association.” In rejecting the application, the Secretary of State explained that the trade name was one of a number registered by an organizasee NAME page 17
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