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Delivering food for the body — and the soul

By Kathy Shiels Tully

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  January 01, 2012

Kathy Rogers of Billerica volunteers with the Merrimack Valley Food Bank’s mobile food pantry, delivering groceries mid-day to 14 clients, all of whom are homebound, elderly, and/or with medical conditions that prevent them from shopping for themselves. Like clockwork, every third Tuesday of the month, the vivacious 46-year old Billerica resident leaves work around 11:30 a.m. Driving her own truck first to the food bank, Rogers helps load it, then makes the deliveries in an efficient two hours before returning to her full-time job.

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