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🌱 How to get free fresh produce at New Market Park Oct. 11

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  • How to get free fresh produce at New Market Park Oct. 11

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  • Tuesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high of 74 and low of 51 degrees.
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📰 News we're reading

• Seventh-day Adventist churches, Jon Henry General Store partner for produce giveaway (dnronline.com) — A free fresh-produce giveaway is coming to New Market Park on October 11, offering no-questions-asked fruits and vegetables to anyone who shows up. Local Seventh-day Adventist churches, Immanuel's Ground Farm, and Jon Henry General Store in New Market are teaming up to keep the program going despite lost federal funding, as food insecurity and grocery prices continue to squeeze Shenandoah Valley families.
   

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