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Wal-Mart surprises food pantry with Christmas bonus
From left, Wal-Mart assistant manager Sonya Hignight presents a checks for $1,335 to Hancock County Food Pantry treasurer Wilma McMahon and pantry president Aileen Sauzier just in time for Christmas. The monies were part of a sales promotion in which Wal-Mart donated ten percent of all sales between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. the day after Thanksgiving to help feed the needy of the county. In addition, Wal-Mart canned goods collections resulted in more than 65 bags of food delivered to the food pantry within the past two weeks. (Echo staff photo by Jacqui Cochran)