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Black-owned produce market supports West Philadelphia community during unrest, pandemic

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FOX 29's Dawn Timmeney speaks with the owner about his good deeds in Philadelphia. WEST PHILADELPHIA - The owner of a West Philadelphia produce market is helping the community in a special way amid the COVID-19 pandemic and recent civil unrest in the aftermath of the death of Geroge Floyd.

Arnett Woodall, owner of West Phillie Produce, has been a fixture at 62nd and Market Streets for the last 11 years. In that time, Woodall has become someone the community can count on for his role in operating a food distribution center on top of his regular business.  "Giving away food, bread, canned goods, a lot of the things you saw in the pantry back there," Woodall told FOX 29's Dawn Timmeney. "We make sure we get it to the people who need it in

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