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Shelves Bare Days Before Easter

The Temecula Murrieta Rescue Mission is in "critical need for food."

The shelves were almost bare only days before Easter at a local food pantry.

The Temecula Murrieta Rescue Mission had only enough food to feed its needy clients for four weeks, said Corynne Randel, a spokesperson for the organization said.

The mission is a joint effort between Rancho Community Church and the Orange County Rescue Mission. It aims to feed and house needy people in the Temecula Valley.

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The mission gets much of the produce it gives out from Kendall Farms. The farm donated use of a portion of its land to the mission, which sends volunteers to tend it and bring back produce.

Besides food, the mission needs a volunteer licensed care provider to work at the mobile medical clinics it runs at Rancho Community Church and Calvary Chapel Murrieta for a few hours a month.

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It also needs donations to build a well at Kendall Farms, a location to install a walk-in refrigerator, collapsible food bins and furnishing and landscape work for its transitional houses.

Holding a food drive at your business, church or other organization is easy, Randel said. To download a kit showing how to hold a drive, click here.


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