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Local Chick-fil-A restaurants present check to East Texas Food Bank

A total of $12,200 were raised to provide nutritious kid-friendly meals for over 8,000 children in East Texas.

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(From left) Barbara Carter, Donna Spann, Ikey Eason, Joshua Johnson, Jeff Johnson, Sheridan Smith, Jeremy Puckett, and Dennis Cullinane smile for a photo on Thursday during a check presentation from local Chick-fil-A restaurants to the East Texas Food Bank supporting its BackPack program.

TYLER, Texas — East Texas Chick-fil-A restaurants from the Longview, Lufkin, Nacogdoches, Palestine, Tyler, and Texarkana areas presented a check Thursday to the East Texas Food Bank.

The local restaurants raised $12,200 from the sale of cookies and brownies for a week to support the BackPack Program.

One dollar from each sale went to the program, which provides nutritious kid-friendly meals for the weekend to over 8,000 children in East Texas.

Read more from our CBS19 paper partner, Tyler Morning Telegraph.

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