"It's very hard when you go home and your wife asks every day, 'what happened?'" Torres said. "This company knows what they are doing. In the end, they make the community more poor. They are destroying lives. They are destroying families."

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In 2008, the food pantry and soup kitchen served a total of 300,000 meals, an increase from the 200,000 meals POTS served in 2005, said Maureen Sheehan, POTS development director.

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