The immediate recipients of the harvest are local individuals, churches, and nonprofit organizations such as the Cedar Manor nursing care center and the Bread of Life Food Pantry.

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The first arises from the fact that getting a candidate elected is not all that different from doing the bread-and-butter business of union life.

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