Portage County residents in need of assistance with food access are getting a couple of new options to make it easier to connect with resources over the next month.

New pop-up pantries in Garrettsville and Randolph Township are intended to help get food to people in areas with less access. The Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank, whose eight-county service area includes Portage will deploy a refrigerated truck and work with community groups to coordinate the pop-up's.

“The food bank provides the food, the partner provides the space, typically a parking lot, and also the volunteers,” according to Raven Gayheart, director of marketing and public relations at the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank “And so it's a community effort in which a variety of partners work hard to meet the needs within our r

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