Empty Stocking Fund: The cupboard was bare when Sheri Nowick reached out for help

Sheri Nowick didn’t know what to do.
She looked in the fridge and it was empty. She looked in the cupboards and they were bare.
Where, she thought, was the next meal going to come from?
Nowick wasn’t so much worried about herself and her husband Jim. She was really concerned about her 14-year-old daughter Sam, a special-needs child with high-functioning autism and learning disabilities.
“It was scary,” Sheri Nowick said.
But then Nowick remembered seeing something on a lo