AKRON, Ohio — According to Summit County Public Health, about 30,000 residents live in food deserts, areas with high poverty that also lack access to large grocery stores. Most of those locations are in Akron and southern Barberton.

But a nonprofit, Summit Fresh Mobile Market, has come up with a way to bring food to people in those neighborhoods with a big, green grocery bus that gets rolling on Saturday.

The grocery store on wheels makes its first stop on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Reach Opportunity Center on West Crosier Street in the Summit Lake neighborhood. Mayor Shammas Malik will be on hand for a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

"It's a grocery store that goes into food deserts in certain areas of Summit County that are underserved, that don't have access to fresh groceries," sai

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