Giving Back: First Ward Living Grace Food Pantry

Pine Bluff's Debra Strickland Allen radiates hope in dark times

Deborah Strickland Allen (far left) with county employees who recently helped at her food bank.

No one will ever say Debra Strickland Allen is shy. 

Last week at a Community Chat about Jefferson County, Allen, the executive director of First Ward Living Grace Food Pantry, stood up and told a young, pregnant 911 dispatcher not to worry about going hungry. …