SNAP CUTS

Volunteer Mark Bickel, left, helps Thomas Husted and Darlene Chandler of Kalkaska at the Acme Christian Thrift Store and Food Pantry in Williamsburg. "We'd be in trouble if we didn't have one," Chandler, who says she gets $16 a month in aid, said of the food pantry. Proposed changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, could end benefits for as many as 3 million people and increase the number of people seeking help at food pantries.

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