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Residents angry about
lunger county’ label
Associated Press
/ERNON — Retired ranch hand
ail Standlee says “nothing has
te ofbuli It kicked up as much dust” in Wil-
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^ report compiled by a Harvard-
led research group and released
esday by the Harvard University
)! of Public Health and Physi-
jisTask Force on Hunger named
barger as one of 150 “hunger
Iinties” across the United States,
pas has 29 hunger counties, the
irt said.
iunger counties are those where
ipercent or more of the residents
I below poverty level but at least
^-third of the eligible participants
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made us mad,”
adlee said. “This is not a hungry
nty. This is not a poor county. I’d
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bod stamps.”
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of those of many of the 16,000
leirdep; lidents of the largely rural county
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people who need help, and some
who could use more to eat, they re
sent being labeled a “hunger
county.” Residents complain that the
report ignored their efforts at taking
care of their own.
“Here we are doing all of this stuff
here. We think we are doing a great
job. We are trying to provide any
program that we can,” Wilbarger
County judge Bob Arnold told the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Besides food stamps, food pro
grams offered in Wilbarger County
include the Meals-on-Wheels pro
gram that serves 62 people daily
with another 10 to 12 on a waiting
list; Red Cross; a meals programs
provided by the local senior citizens
group; and free and reduced lunch
and breakfast programs at the
school that serve about 870 students
daily.
The county also has a federal
commodities subsidy program that
provides cheese, butter and dried
foods to about 1,000 people
monthly; food closets provided by
churches and the ministerial alli
ance; the Women, Infants and Chil
dren’s Program; and the Salvation
Army.
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Monday
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“If someone needs help, all
have to do is ask,” Arnold said.
Barbara Evans, spokeswoman for
the Department of Human Services,
said that an average of 815 people in
Wilbarger County receive food
stamps every month. She said that
more people are probably eligible,
but there are many reasons they
don’t take them. People in the rural
counties are independent, she said.
“We find that people in these ru
ral counties are the last ones to apply
for food stamps. . . . They have rood
pantries and other programs that
serve them, too,” she said.
Social service agencies said they
don’t know of anyone who is hungry
and not receiving some form of
help.
Kathleen Hindman, director of
the local Meals-on-Wheels program,
said it is not uncommon to find peo
ple who will participate in that pro
gram but not seek food stamps or ac
cept government commodities.
“Usually they are old. . . . They
grew up during the Depression
when everyone was hungry and they
can’t ask for a handout now,” she
said.
Residents vote
for truck stop
incorporation
Associated Press
CARL’S CORNER — Neighbors'
of the popular Carl’s Corner truck
stop have voted to incorporate the
area as a town, making a dream
come true for Carl Cornelius, the
business’ owner.
The business drew attention when
Cornelius began building a truckers’
paradise.
The truck stop has a 24-hour res
taurant, two saunas, swimming pool
and a park area with a pond. A
truckers’ drive-in theater is in the
works, designed so drivers won’t
have to leave their rigs for the show.
The 58 people who went to the
polls at the truck stop make up about
75 percent of the registered voters in
the 1,200-acre area. The votes will
be canvassed, and the Hill County
judge will then call an election for
city officials.
Cornelius said he has been asked
to run for mayor, but “I don’t know
if I will. Tm tired.”
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