Georgia Legal Food Frenzy logo. (Courtesy photo)
The Georgia Legal Food Frenzy rode into the weekend having raised $312,018, as of 4 p.m. Friday, for the state’s besieged food banks.
It’s an impressive figure, given last year’s event raised $419,000 over the 12 days of competition. But the needs of food banks have grown exponentially in the past month, as about one million Georgians have lost jobs due to efforts to slow COVID-19. Before the pandemic, food banks were already serving 1.5 million Georgians who didn’t know how they’d get their next meal.
