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St. Petersburg Free Clinic buys Lealman building to expand food bank

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Bonnie Hechtkopf has searched for a way to honor her husband, Jared, ever since he died 15 years ago. She thinks she’s found it. Hechtkopf donated enough money to the St. Petersburg Free Clinic to buy a warehouse, rehab and renovate it to be used as a food bank that will provide food to more than 60,000 hungry people each month. It will be named the Jared S. Hechtkopf Community Food Bank. “This is perfect,” Hechtkopf said. “I wanted something…

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