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Local kids have benefitted from the Gulp and Gallop summer lunch program these past years, sponsored by the Woods County Coalition for Healthy Living. The program, which ended June 22, provides free food (from the Regional Food Bank) and entertainment to any child in Woods County who wants to attend. The program has been gaining traction since its creation.

The program's site coordinator, Nicki Chaffee, said the biggest criticism the program had was that it didn't cover the entire gap before school begins in the fall.

“I thought I would personally take on filling the gap,” Chaffee sai...