Here in Pinellas County, Donna McGill, executive director of the Lealman and Asian Neighborhood Family Center, gets calls every day asking for help to pay electric and water bills… The growing need for assistance is also being felt at agencies such as the St. Pete Free Clinic and Daystar Life Center. They have to meet the challenge of hardships wrought by the pandemic and lately, of rising prices. Requests for help now come increasingly from those who have not had to ask before.
