Giant freezer may help get more food to Aroostook County pantries

Giant freezer may help get more food to Aroostook County pantries

Jim Cyr, left, and Cliff Cyr, right, watch as a staff member for Catholic Charities in Caribou loads a pallet of Aroostook County-grown potatoes onto a box truck bound for the St. Thomas Aquinas food pantry in Madawaska. Photo by Sean Scott.On Route 1 in Monticello is a warehouse stacked high with bales of used clothes, bins full of cardboard and shelves full of food. Some of the goods come from trucks heading north that have extra cargo they ne…