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Lean time of year for food pantry

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Bobbi Braico, a FISH Food Pantry volunteer from West Dundee, gets ready to deliver a cart filled with food to a needy family.

LENORE ADKINS | Staff Photographer, 2012

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Volunteers at the FISH Food Pantry in Carpentersville distributed food to slightly more than 290 additional Dundee Township families last year than the previous year. When the clock struck midnight on Jan. 1, 5,252 had walked through the pantry’s door in the Meadowdale Shopping Center, said FISH President Mary Graziano.