COVID has produced ‘strange and surreal’ year for SHEM

Scott Swanson

Sweet Home Emergency Ministries has had a “strange and surreal” year, one of its directors told the Sweet Home Rotary Club Tuesday, Dec. 1.

Cindy Rice, who as pantry manager oversees the distribution of food, the nonprofit relief organization’s main outreach, said SHEM has been serving more people with fewer volunteer staff resources during the COVID pandemic.

The “100% volunteer” organization has been in Sweet Home nearly 41 years and has impacted thousands…

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