By Lindsay Carey Staff Writer September is Hunger Action Month and Southington Community Services is seeking donations. “You know, everyone’s giving in December and that’s wonderful, but we need the whole year round because the summer’s the toughest time,” said Dave Harrington from Southington Community Services. Mark Fazzolari, who also works for the Southington Community Services, said that the summer months tend to be more difficult because children out are out of school. Some parents rely on the breakfast and lunch programs at school, but during the summer they face difficulties because the children are home all day. “Families we normally see come in twice a year are coming in every week during the summer,” said Fazzolari. According to Harrington, the non-profit organization serves 50 to 80 families per day and close to 250 families a week. In May of 2013, the Southington Community Serves Food Pantry served 32,686 meals and served 429 unduplicated families. “The people that come are not just people that are low income,” said Harrington. “There’s middle income that are down on their luck, because of the 2008 bubble. It didn’t really affect the poor people, because we were already there and it didn’t affect the [...]
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