PORT ANGELES — State funding and federal food supplies will be distributed through the Port Angeles Food Bank rather than Olympic Community Action Programs.

Olympic Community Action Programs (OlyCAP) announced this week it has transitioned the state Department of Agriculture (WSDA) food assistance programs in Clallam and Jefferson counties to the Port Angeles Food Bank.

The programs — The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), a federal program that provides food commodities, and the Emergency Food Assistance Program (EFAP), a state program that provides money — represent about 98 percent of the food assistance programs that WSDA has in the two counties, OlyCAP program contract manager Erin Smith said.

“We have been the lead agency for the EFAP money in Clallam County since 2019,” P

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