Information about Pickering Cares

Saturday, May 28, 2011

2011 Food Drive

Monday night, May 30th is our final part of Pickering Cares 2011 Food Drive. Our partners and team leaders will meet to celebrate and feed back our 2011 drive. We will receive our final numbers from the results. I can tell you that even though many of the target items weighed less than last year, we still exceeded 5 tons of food. We have heard from both food banks what a timely and significant impact this year's drive has been. Good job Pickering. You really do care!!

Please note that even though we try to ensure that every house receives a flyer and every house that has food put out on the pick up day, gets their food picked up, we have less than perfect execution. this year we missed at least 25 homes and will continue to work on getting better at this. If we missed you, please accept our apologies. If you haven't let us know yet, please drop us an email at pickeringcares@gmail.com

A big, huge thanks to the over 300 volunteers that made this possible. If you want to volunteer next year please drop us a note at pickeringcaresvolunteer@gmail.com

Thank you

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Last Week of 2011 Food Drive Project

   This is it folks. We have gathered up the last few flyers and are delivering them today and tomorrow. The Pickering News Advertiser is printing an article about the drive either tomorrow or Thursday. He is a link: http://www.durhamregion.com/news/article/176825

   We have rented the trucks, obtained lots of boxes, organized the sorting tables and are ready to go. We start collecting Saturday morning at 9:30 AM

   If you have helped this year, please accept our thanks. If you are one of the thousands that will put our non-perishable food, we are truly grateful. Your generosity will make a huge difference to families in our community this summer.

   We will report the final totals as soon as the tallies are complete.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Pickering Cares 2011 - The last 12 days

   All the planning and preparing now shifts into volunteers carrying out the two major tasks:
       1. Deliver a Door Handle Flyer to the 25,000 single family homes in Pickering that are south of Finch
       2. Come back May 14th and pick up the food that people put out for the food banks.

   We at Pickering Cares have again been amazed by the cooperation of the community. There are 7 of the churches, scouts pathfinders, youth groups and community volunteers making a contribution this year. We trust that by Saturday night, May 7th, all the flyers will have been delivered.

    Then Saturday, May 14th, we need everybody possible to help us collect, sort, pack and deliver the approximately 10 tons of food the citizens of Pickering will donate. Here are the details:

     Amberlea Presbyterian Church - 1820 Whites Road - 9AM

     We need drivers and runners. We will have certificates available for High School Volunteer Hours.

      When many hands work together we can accomplish much and make a huge difference to those families that need it the most this summer.

      Thank you in advance for your help.