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Food bank cuts back on service to singles.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-JAN-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1046 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Food bank cuts back on service to singles.(Family)(Temporary closure: Complaints of bad behavior at the new location force changes.)

Article Excerpt
Byline: SUSAN PALMER The Register-Guard

The respite was short.

FOOD for Lane County's Eugene dinner program had barely settled into its new home at the former Govinda's restaurant on West Eighth Avenue when neighborhood complaints compelled it to stop feeding hungry people.

The suspension of service at The Dining Room is temporary, said food bank Executive Director Caroline Frengle. Sometime in the next two weeks they'll open up again. But this time only families and senior citizens will be welcome.

It's the latest chapter in a saga that has plagued the food bank since it took over the program three years ago from Community Family Soup Kitchens, a struggling nonprofit agency.

In its old incarnation, the soup kitchens only served families, but because of at least one complaint to the Eugene Human Rights Commission, the food bank initially opened the dining room to single adults as well.

And that's when the problems began.

The recent complaints...

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