Greg Childress

By Greg Childress

NC Newsline

At Health and Nutritional Development Empowered Education, a Christian-based food assistance program in Spring Lake, there’s been a noticeable uptick in military families seeking help to put food on the table, said Renee Gregory, the program’s leader.

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“It has increased tremendously, what people are needing,” Gregory said. “They need food, and we’re right down from Fort Bragg, so back in the past, soldiers, they didn’t need to come get food, but now we have lines and lines and lines of soldiers waiting to receive food as well.”

At the same time that the number of military families coming in has increas

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