Uptown Grocery manager Gia Shafer takes some cookies out of the oven while preparing spaghetti lunches at Uptown to be sold to benefit the Natchez Junior Auxiliary. The funds raised by the lunch sale will go to support the group’s Pack the Backpack and Rapped in Love programs along with helping them to pay for their new roof. (Sam Gause / Natchez Democrat)

Shafer puts meat sauce on spaghetti while preparing lunches. (Sam Gause / Natchez Democrat)