National Senior Citizen Day is August 21.

The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank is now serving 178,700 monthly guests, on average. “Luckily”, that’s only up marginally YOY. But over the last 3 years it’s a 40% increase, and a 70% increase since before the pandemic. If there were a line with 178,700 people in it, it would stretch 42 miles (Charlottesville to Staunton), (Winchester to Warrenton on Rt. 50 (approximately)) (Harrisonburg to Woodstock on I-81)

Listen to the full conversation here.