Well, not really me, but we were all part of a city-wide food and together the members of the six LDS Stakes in Calgary achieved the goal and collected over 500,000 pounds of food for the Calgary Inter-faith Food Bank.
This Food Bank press release explains what we did.
This Food Bank press release explains what we did.
Last year nearly 90,000 Calgarians used the food bank. Nearly 45% of these were children.
What started in our ward as a service project many years ago has turned into this city-wide food drive that now holds the world record for the most food collected in one day. They estimate that the food collected on Saturday is worth over $1,000,000.
We don't knock on doors. A few days before collection day we pass out bags with an information sheet to all the homes in Calgary. The idea is that people will fill up the bags and leave them on there doorstep Saturday morning.
On Saturday morning we go around and collect any bags left out.
Jenelle kept count
Our driver and navigator
We then take them to one of 6 drop off sites in the city (1 per stake).
The missionaries were there in full force
From there the food is loaded onto these trucks and taken to the Food Bank. We filled up 2 and a half of these trailers at our drop off location.
(Purolator donated the use of the trucks and the drivers).
(Purolator donated the use of the trucks and the drivers).
Purolator had some young looking drivers
SteveO was operating the folk lift
The fork lifts were donated as well.
I had to add this one just because.
I hope that this is a world record that gets broken soon and is broken often.
Read more about it
Calgary Food Bank Website
Calgary Herald
Calgary Sun
Edmonton Sun
Cape Breton Post (Not much must happen there)
Read more about it
Calgary Food Bank Website
Calgary Herald
Calgary Sun
Edmonton Sun
Cape Breton Post (Not much must happen there)
