MAPLEWOOD, Mo. _ On a recent afternoon, Shana Poole-Jones set up her tables full of food in her yard, like she's done almost every day for more than a month.
"HELP YOURSELF," read handwritten signs attached to the three tables filled with everything from carrots and cucumbers to peanut butter and rice mixes on the lot near the corner of Bredell and Folk avenues in Maplewood.
A string of visitors, all affected in some way by the coronavirus pandemic, soon began to stop by. Construction workers who had their hours cut with slow-downs in work grabbed items. A woman who drove about 45 minutes, from Warrenton, collected food for a nurse she knows who has five kids and needs help. A maintenance man who is seeing less work amid the shutdown grabbed a few things, saying, "Food is tight. This will help."
