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Chestatee community supports Backpack Buddies
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Volunteers with the Chestatee subdivision and Rotary Club of Dawson County recently collected hundreds of food items for Backpack Buddies, a local initiative that provides snacks and easy-to-serve food to children of low-income families in Dawson County. - photo by Michele Hester Dawson County News
Volunteers recently collected more than 2,500 items for a local program designed to make sure children do not go hungry when they leave school for the weekend each Friday. "Most of us never know what that really feels like to be really hungry. If we are hungry, we find a way to meet that hunger," said Hugh Holley, who helped organize the effort with his neighbors in the Chestatee subdivision community.