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4-year-old Mikayla Cardona spins around next to her father, Feliciano, while waiting for her mother, Onilda, center, to finish shopping with Gilda Pineda, left, Wednesday afternoon at Community Harvest Food Bank off Tillman Road. The food bank’s Farm Wagon program, which delivers food to sites around northeast Indiana, was canceled Wednesday because of the cold weather. Claudia Johnson, director of communications, said most people who line up for the Farm Wagon walk from their homes, and it’s too dangerous for them to wait in long lines in such cold. According to the food bank’s website, Farm Wagon deliveries are canceled for the day when the temperature at 7:30 a.m. in Fort Wayne is 10 degrees or less.

Warm inside food bank, but cold cancels Farm Wagon

All Community Harvest Food Bank Farm Wagon distributions in Allen, DeKalb and LaGrange counties are canceled today.

Food bank officials announced Thursday morning that today’s extremely cold temperatures prompted the cancellations.

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