Byline: YANCEY ROY - Staff writer
The number of people eating daily at the local soup kitchen increased by more than 50 percent during the just-concluded horse-racing season, officials said Tuesday.
They attributed the numbers to two significant developments: more low-paid track workers and more families thrust into homelessness because of skyrocketing August rents.
Whereas the kitchen, operated by the Saratoga Economic Opportunity Council, was serving 90 or so people per day in June and July, about 140 people ate each day during August. Even the pre-August numbers have increased, from about 75 to 80 per day in 1992.
Dennis Brunelle, …
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