{"id":38918,"date":"2025-11-08T16:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T16:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/38918\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T16:25:13","slug":"cars-line-up-for-hours-for-orange-county-food-distribution-wdbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/38918\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars line up for hours for Orange County food distribution \u2013 WDBO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\">ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Hundreds of people arrived at an east Orange County food distribution site that was the first in a series of pre-Thanksgiving giveaways in Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\">The first people arrived almost three hours early, citing the uncertainty of SNAP benefits and rising prices that were making it hard to put dinner on the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\">The event, organized by Commissioner Maribel Gomez-Cordero and Congressman Maxwell Frost, had the capacity to feed 350 families. Marketing was targeted at SNAP recipients and federal workers, though all were welcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\">Boxes from the Second Harvest Food Bank were distributed, while nonprofit leaders said searches on <a href=\"https:\/\/feedhopenow.org\/find-help\/food-finder\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their Food Finder<\/a> website were up 300%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\">Another distribution is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Saturday at West Orange High School. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762619113_395_APP DOWNLOAD LOCAL_1541693885678.jpg_13622062_ver1.0.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Hundreds of people arrived at an east Orange County food distribution site that was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[575,25234,139,141,140,15890],"class_list":{"0":"post-38918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-food","9":"tag-food-drive","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-news","13":"tag-second-harvest"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}