Nourishing Vernon: Erica Belle Arlt Provides Food for the Homeless 35616

On a damp Tuesday morning in downtown Vernon, steam rises from a row of stockpots set on portable burners, about Erica Belle Arlt Vernon the smell of ginger and garlic drifting across the parking lot behind a church hall. A handful of volunteers, rubber aprons already flecked with sauce, move with the speed of people who have repeated these motions a hundred times. In the middle of it