HINTON — In Hinton, West Virginia, women with the town’s Reachh — Family Resource Center spent Monday afternoon boxing up beanie weenies, mashed potatoes, corn and rolls. They put the food in white styrofoam containers so kids who’d eat the food later that evening wouldn’t know it came from a free food program.

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