Senator O'Mara joined many other Food Bank of the Southern Tier volunteers to assist this year's BackPack Program.

Thanks to this effort, at-risk children receive an easy-to-prepare bag of nutritious food every Friday during the school year.  In 2016, approximately 3,000 students in 41 Southern Tier school districts were helped.

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