BAZETTA — Less than a week before Thanksgiving, the Warren Family Mission provided a blessing of an emergency food giveaway for local residents.

Food insecurity was evident at the Trumbull County Fairgrounds on Saturday.

“There were 200 cars lined up outside of the fairgrounds at 2:30 a.m. for our scheduled time of 10 a.m.,” said Dominic Mararri, director of public relations at the mission.

Because of the large number of families seeking assistance, the drive-thru giveaway organizers had to change their original plan.

“The mission received a phone call from the Trumbull County Sheriff’s department. They asked us to open up earlier since the cars lined up were a traffic hazard,” Mararri said, noting they had food packed for 1,000 cars.

“We want to lift the burden of the high cost of fo

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