Food insecurity getting worse for Elyria families and surrounding counties [Video]
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ELYRIA, Ohio — The Second Harvest Food Bank works around the clock to keep families fed and full. President and CEO Julie Chase-Morefield said the need seen during the pandemic still hasn’t tapered off.

“At the height, we were seeing serving 45,000 families in one month, but we are near 20-25,000 families a month, and now we are looking at 30,000 families/households served a month, and that’s huge, those are huge numbers,” said Morefield.

Many of the families in need have kids in the Elyria City School District. The district has continued its monthly food drives at Ely Stadium for the last three years.

We were there for the first one in April of 2020. Nearly four years later, News 5 is following through, and learning the need is still great. Superintendent Ann Schloss said the district was serving one thousand families at the height of the pandemic. The numbers …

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