Area food banks brace for increased demand

Area food banks brace for increased demand

BY DANIEL SCHMIDT FOR THE OBSERVER EAST ALABAMA — In the unseasonably chill Halloween air, a line of cars wrapped nearly completely around the Valley First Assembly of God Church. It was just shy of 9 a.m., and each one had come to receive their bimonthly food assistance from the congregation’s food bank mission. Inside, a handful of parishioners — most well into their sixties and seventies — stacked box upon box onto a flat cart to begin this m…