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Surge in food bank clients continues

The Mountain View Food Bank (MVFB) is still seeing a flood of clients, four years after the price of oil tanked. MVFB volunteers say every Tuesday when the food bank is open, it serves between 50 and 60 people.
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Mountain View Food Bank (MVFB) volunteer Tayva Graham pushes a cart at the Olds facility. The food bank is still seeing a flood of clients, four years after the price of oil tanked, MVFB president Vicky Johnson says.

The Mountain View Food Bank (MVFB) is still seeing a flood of clients, four years after the price of oil tanked.

MVFB volunteers say every Tuesday when the food bank is open, it serves between 50 and 60 people. On busy days they deal with more than 60.

"We've been busy like this, I'd say for a year, anyway," MVFB president Vicky Johnson said last week.

Johnson said contrary to what some people might think, clients come from all walks of life.

"(It's) not just single moms and lower income or people who have had a hard time trying to find a job. It's people who have lost their jobs or just find that the living expenses, they just can't make ends meet. So this is a good supplement for them," she says.

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