When There's No School Food Vans

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The central of “When there’s no school lunch in St. Louis, food vans help fill the gap” by Allison Colburn, is vans go around and give lots of kids food that usually get school breakfast and lunch so that they can have 3 meals a day every day for free . “The group is providing free meals to children who would normally eat breakfast and lunch at school.” Is the text evidence that7 I found to support my statement. I chose this text evidence because it explains that the kids that usually get school breakfast and lunch can get free meals for free from this group. “The summer program, now in its sixth year, has grown from providing 5,000 meals in 2012” this text evidence shows that they help lots of kids to get food over the summer. “During the

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