Weir loses state food aid as emergency program funding fails
WEIR. Kan. — One Southeast Kansas community program that receives commodities from the state is now on pause.
Once a month, the city of Weir receives commodities from the state to give to residents who are in need of food. However, this month city leaders received word from the Emergency Food Assistance Program or TEFAP that funding to deliver to communities like Weir didn't come through. That caused the community to cancel this month's commodities distribution.
About 35 residents from Weir, Scammon and West Mineral take advantage of the program each month, receiving canned and frozen foods.
'Some of them are elderly, and if they don't get it from us, they don't get it. You know, some of them get snap, but that's kind of in the range of being cut, too. So, if they you know, these people, they get hungry like everybody. You know, they need the food,' said Milt Alexander.
Alexander says without federal funding for this program, he's now concerned about other commodities programs aimed at feeding seniors. He says they don't know if they'll be able to pick the program back up in July or not.
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