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FRANKFORT,
Ky. — The Kentucky Department of Agriculture is sending
food to victims of hurricane Frances in Florida.
The
KDA's Division of Food Distribution is working in cooperation
with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to send
four truckloads of commodities, valued at $65,000, to
help provide more than 2 million meals to more than
92,000 evacuees in 472 emergency shelters and other
mass feeding sites in Florida, Alabama, Georgia and
South Carolina. Kentucky will send canned fruit mix,
peaches, corn, green beans and peas. The food is being
sent at the request of FEMA through the United States
Department of Agriculture's Southeast Regional Office.
The
Division of Food Distribution is helping USDA coordinate
with three contracted commercial warehouses that receive,
store and deliver commodities to Kentucky schools to
load the commodities so they can be delivered to Florida
before Sunday. The warehouses are the Jefferson County
Public Schools system, Clem's Refrigerated Foods in
Lexington and Gordon Food Service in East Bernstadt.
USDA
will reimburse the value of the commodities that are
being diverted.
The
Division of Food Distribution administers USDA food
and nutrition programs in Kentucky, providing commodities
to senior citizens, women, infants and children, and
the school lunch program. USDA is authorized to ask
states to release commodities to disaster relief agencies
in presidential declared emergencies.
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