Every Monday morning, volunteers arrive at Clark County Adventist Community Services to find their back courtyard trashed.
Furniture, bags of clothes and beer bottles are just some of what volunteers find week after week. Most weeks, it falls to volunteers to load what they can into the food pantry’s garbage cans; what doesn’t fit goes on the back of a truck and to the dump.
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