PLANO (1080 KRLD) - A Plano food pantry will open to serve furloughed federal workers on Monday.
Instead of having Monday off, Minnie's Food Pantry will open its doors to help feed furloughed federal workers. Volunteers spent Saturday preparing 300 boxes of food for them, according to pantry director Lynette Wellington.
She tells NBC 5, they are seeing furloughed workers every single day and adds it isn't just federal workers feeling the pinch.
She said many clients aren't receiving food stamps, adding the Pantry served 1,700 people in two-and-a-half weeks in December.
She says it's served 1,200 people in 8 days in January.




