Starving students given helping hand with Food Pantry at CSUB
By Harold Pierce, hpierce@bakersfield.com
Marisela Rodriguez, a Cal State Bakersfield student navigating her freshman year of college, sometimes goes home to an empty kitchen.
Between paying for books, tuition and living expenses, she doesn’t always have a lot of money for food-especially around the holidays. And her parents, both of whom are field hands who pick grapes, may help feed the world from the Central Valley, but they sometimes struggle to take care of themselves. Both have been laid off from work for the winter season.
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