‘Small acts’ seen as weapon in fight against hunger

Bill Monahan is outreach coordinator for Grace Cottage Hospital’s Community Health Team. File photo by Mike Faher/VTDiggerTOWNSHEND – Federal statistics offer some positive news for hunger in Vermont: During the past several years, the state’s rate of “food insecurity” has been trending slowly but steadily down.
But those numbers don’t mean much in the West River Valley region of Windham County, where community volunteers and school staffers are seeing a growi