With food assistance benefits set to expire for 77,160 Summit County residents, County Executive Ilene Shapiro is asking the communities in Ohio's fourth-largest county to come together to help their neighbors find a meal.

Summit County Council approved $250,000 in emergency funding to the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank to assist residents losing their Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits — commonly referred to as food stamps — as a result of the ongoing government shutdown.

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