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Archive Home > 2007 > December > 11 > Give meal cards to panhandlers instead

Give meal cards to panhandlers instead

Bend’s Community Center stacks the deck against hunger

By David Jasper / The Bulletin
December 11, 2007

It’s an intersection of goodwill and possible bad habits at which we’ve all been stuck: Do you give money to roadside panhandlers, or keep the windows up and do the thousand-yard stare?

The answer is no, you shouldn’t hand over cash, says Taffy Gleason, executive....

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