Rich Epperson of Naperville spent 27 years in the Marine Corp and was happy to see a lot of other veterans this past weekend at a special event held in Aurora.

“I found about this because I now work for the Fox Valley Park District as a lifeguard and I went to a veteran’s luncheon that the park district sponsors every year and there was a flyer in a gift

bag, which is how I found out,” Epperson said as he waited in his car Saturday at a local food bank.

“My wife is retired and I only work part-time and this will help out with our food budget. My brother, who is also out of work – I’m going to give some of this to him.”

With the Thanksgiving holiday soon to be upon us and food scarcity growing to even greater heights in the past few weeks, the Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry stepped

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