Waldo County Food Giveaway Jams Traffic, A Sign Of The Worsening Pandemic

A distribution of federally-funded free food to help people survive the pandemic drew more than 500 vehicles in Waldo County on Friday ― a sign of the impact of the county’s spike of 57 COVID-19 cases, organizers said.Volunteers distributed 1,152 U.S. Department of Agriculture Farms to Families food boxes, their total supply, at Mount View High School in Thorndike and Renys Plaza in Belfast, said Cherie Merrill, executive director of Belfast Soup Kitchen, one of several organizations distributing the food. Merrill said that the 57 cases connected to an outbreak spreading through Waldo County that has been linked to Brooks Pentecostal Church helped draw the record-breaking crowd.