Over 35,000 households in Montgomery County, Maryland, will have food on the table this Thursday thanks to the nonprofit organization So What Else and its Thanksgiving give back week campaign.

More than 1,400 vehicles drove through its parking lot at Wyaconda Road in North Bethesda on Saturday and Sunday, with trunks and backseats being filled with bags and boxes of food.

Dave Silbert, the co-founder and executive director of So What Else told WTOP that the need is greater this year, as he watched drivers in Mercedes and BMWs line up alongside older model pickup trucks waiting for their turn.

“People don’t get paid for four to six weeks, and all of a sudden, they’re at a food bank. It just shows you where there’s not much margin for error in our economy,” Silbert said, speaking of the

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