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Lower Burrell restaurant 'honored to help,' gives out 700 free meals

Nate Smallwood
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Villa Ballanca employee Samantha Geracia helps give out free meals outside of Villa Ballanca restaurant in Lower Burrell on Saturday, April 4, 2020.
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Villa Ballanca employee, Agron Murtezi, helps give out to-go meals outside of Villa Ballanca in Lower Burrell on Saturday, April 4, 2020.
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Villa Ballanca employee, Zac Pulcini, helps prepare to-go meals inside of Villa Ballanca in Lower Burrell on Saturday, April 4, 2020.
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Villa Ballanca employee, Samantha Geracia, helps give out to-go meals outside of Villa Ballanca in Lower Burrell on Saturday, April 4, 2020.
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Villa Ballanca employee, Samantha Geracia, helps give out to-go meals outside of Villa Ballanca in Lower Burrell on Saturday, April 4, 2020.
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Villa Ballanca employee, Zac Pulcini, helps prepare to-go meals inside of Villa Ballanca in Lower Burrell on Saturday, April 4, 2020.
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Villa Ballanca employee, Samantha Geracia, helps give out to-go meals outside of Villa Ballanca in Lower Burrell on Saturday, April 4, 2020.
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Kathy Burnham, of Lower Burrell, hands a donation to Villa Ballanca employee, Samantha Geracia, as she helps give out to-go meals outside of Villa Ballanca in Lower Burrell on Saturday, April 4, 2020.

The Villa Ballanca restaurant in Lower Burrell gave out 700 free take-out meals Saturday.

The restaurant owners posted an invitation on Facebook that it was serving “to-go” meals between noon and 3 p.m.

The invitation read, in part, that the effort was “for those who are in need, trying to stay close to our neighborhood and help as much as we can even (though) we are closed due to covid-19. … Grab a dinner for your family. Our staff is honored to help.”

Most of the kitchen help wore preventative masks, as did those handling out the meals outside as cars pulled into the restaurant’s driveway along Leechburg Road.

Nate Smallwood is a Tribune-Review photographer. You can contact Nate via Twitter .

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