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HOLIDAY DONATIONS: Martha Martinez and Socorro Romo of West Marin Community Services prepared a food and toy donation barrel to bring to the Palace Market on Tuesday. The nonprofit lost important funding for its holiday services this year.   David Briggs

This week, the director of West Marin Community Services’ Resource Center, Socorro Romo, began rolling out empty barrels and setting them in front of the Palace Market in hopes of filling them with donated toys and food for West Marin’s needy kids and their families. 

Local donations are even more critical this year as the resource center, a program of West Marin Community Services, must do without support from the Salvation Army, which historically has…