As Californians began to feel the reality of no CalFresh SNAP benefits, this weekend, there was an unannounced, by invitation, mass food distribution in the parking lot of Snapdragon Stadium on Sunday.

The Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank partnered with the State of California, the City of San Diego, and San Diego State University in providing emergency food to the EBT recipients most in need.

“ This is not just another food distribution, but it’s the Super Bowl of food distribution," Casey Castillo, CEO of the San Diego Food Bank, told reporters Sunday during the event.

More than 63,000 pounds of food were provided for individuals and families who had been identified from the Food Bank database prior to the event. M.G. Perez

On Saturday, the ongoing federal government shutdown

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