The Portage County District Library held another pop-up food pantry at its Garrettsville branch Friday morning. Cars were lined up well before distribution started at 9 a.m. At least a half-dozen volunteers bundled up for the bitter cold weather to load boxes of food and bags of produce into cars as they snaked through the line.

More than 100 people came to the library during this latest two hour pop-up, coordinated with the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank, according to Annie Zwisler, the public relations manager at the library.

One of them was Sam Larlham, who usually gets food assistance in Newton Falls. While he receives federal food assistance through SNAP, Larlham said it doesn’t cover enough monthly.

"The SNAP helps quite a bit, but it doesn't it get to the end of the month, and th

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