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• "We set a goal of 3,000 to pass out before Christmas”

By Nathaniel Miller, Reporter
• Odessa American

ODESSA, TEXAS - Craig Stoker said officials with the West Texas Food Bank did not expect their stew bags to be so popular.

For their first distribution in November, Stoker, communications director for the food bank, said the organization handed out 1,300 stew bags, totaling 26,000 pounds of food. The bags are an assortment of fresh vegetables packaged together in a carry bag along with instructions on ways to utilize the food.

Because the bags allow the food bank to distribute more fresh food items to the public ...

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