Driving into Wheeling via 16th Street on Tuesday morning, something was amiss. It was still an hour from noon, yet the line outside the Wheeling Soup Kitchen was already filling up.

On 18th Street, the number of people milling about Catholic Charities’ 18th Street Center was noticeably larger. On Chapline Street, vehicles were double-parked in the parking lot of St. Mathew’s Episcopal Church. People were hurrying in and out of the food pantry at the church.

Across the street at St. James Evangelical Church, people were clustered near the door of the food pantry offered at the church. The doors were not officially opened yet, however the good volunteers at the church were doing their best to accommodate nearly double the usual number of people who made appointments to receive food.

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