A critical resource for families in the lower Rio Grande Valley is running on empty.

The Salvation Army is pausing its food box distributions for September. They have a storage room that should be full of vegetables, pastas, beans and cereal, but now sits nearly empty.

"Some of these people are going to be going hungry, and it's not cool," Harlingen resident Tanya Pherigo said.

Pherigo volunteers at the Salvation Army in Harlingen, but she also regularly comes to pick up food for herself.

"There's times where we struggle, but right now, we're making due with what we have," Pherigo said. "But for these [people] that have nothing, I felt bad. I felt bad because they have nowhere to go."

The Salvation Army in Harlingen helps people in both Cameron and Willacy County. They said people hav

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