By BENNETT HALL, Corvallis Gazette-Times
After JC Whitted's home-based business fell apart, he and his wife, Rita, tried a lot of different things to make ends meet.
He took early retirement and picked up free-lance work wherever he could find it. She launched a backyard nursery operation and took a job waiting tables at a restaurant.
It wasn't enough. With two growing boys to feed, they swallowed their pride and decided to apply for food stamps. Still, something held them back.
"We just couldn't bring ourselves to do it," Whitted said. "Not that there's anything wrong with that, but we're both able-bodied and we thought there's got to be another option."
That's when they discovered the Marys River Gleaners, a self-help organization that salvages surplus food from farmers, food processors, grocery stores and restaurants for distribution to low-income residents of the Corvallis area.
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