Friday, December 26, 2008
By GUY BUSBY
Staff Reporter
While shoppers filled stores in the last hours before Christmas, services agencies were experiencing another holiday rush, and business for them was booming.
With more residents laid off and some still with jobs facing cuts in employment hours, requests for help along the Gulf Coast have doubled from the same time last year, said Linda Chappell of the Christian Service Center. The center, a United Way agency, operates year-round, but requests have been heavy this season, she said.
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