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Registration For Emergency Food Assistance Ends Today At BB&T Center, Hard Rock Stadium

JOE CAVARETTA / Sun Sentinel
Adeline Champion, age 4, waits as her mother Alissa Champion and her grandmother Alison Champion are interviewed at the BB&T Center in Sunrise for the re-start of the D-SNAP hurricane relief program, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017.

Thousands of people converged on two of South Florida’s sports sites for the final day of sign-ups for Hurricane Irma food stamps.

Sign-ups for the Food for Florida program run through 7 p.m. at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens and the BB&T Center in Sunrise.

More than 38,000 families have registered at Hard Rock Stadium for the disaster food program since sign-ups started Tuesday, according to DCF.

At Hard Rock on Wednesday, those in line by 2:30 p.m. had their applications processed, but those arriving after that time were asked to come back the next day, said David Frady, a spokesman with the Florida Department of Children and Families.

Read more at the Sun Sentinel

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