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Orange County Sheriff's Office distributing food to folks in need

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is working to meet the needs of the community by distributing food at three separate events this week.

At each event, deputies will hand out 200 boxes of food.  The first food distribution Tuesday at the sheriff’s office central operations ran out of food within minutes.

If you weren’t able to get food at the event on Tuesday, there are two more events planned for Wednesday and Friday.

We have reached our capacity of 200 boxes for today for our Food Distribution. OCSO will hold two more events this week. See the flyer below for details.

Posted by Orange County Sheriff's Office, Florida on Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Sheriff John Mina spoke to News 96.5 WDBO about the effort.  He said they had planned a series of community barbecues but had to cancel them in March because of the coronavirus pandemic.

“So, obviously because of social distancing we weren’t able to do that but we were like, why don’t we use that money that we were going to use for the community barbecues and distribute some food,” said Mina.

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