Mountains of Food and Thanks

     Thank you Pickering! Your support of our 3^rd annual door-to-door Community Food Drive was a tremendous success. On Saturday, May 12^th we collected just over 10,600 lbs. of food. That’s a lot of jars of pasta sauce!

Mayor Ryan Offers Encouragement

Volunteer Sign Up Table

     Volunteers started their collection around 10am on Saturday morning. Mayor Dave Ryan stopped by to provide some supportive words for our crew who braved the heat and some wildlife (the geese and raccoons are fully at home in the suburbs) to carefully bring back thousands of items to the collection centre. There was non-stop activity in the sorting and packing area as teams worked hard to make sure items were properly packed up for distribution to each of the partner food banks. And we are also very grateful for the wonderful refreshments provided that kept our team moving and hydrated for the entire day.

     So a big thank you to all who came out and spent their time and energy in the planning and execution of this day; thank you to the residents of Pickering for donating thousands of food items for our volunteers to collect; and a special thank you to the Pickering Town Centre for supporting our execution of the donation bags; and to the News Advertiser for getting the bags out in the hands of their readers!

     This day would just not have come together without everyone’s support!

Food Sorting and Packing

Bags Coming In From Door to Door Pickups

Final Boxing of Food Items before delivery to Food Banks

     If you missed our pick-up day, and would still like to support this cause, we are still accepting food donations at the Pickering Town Centre (by Zellers) and at any Pickering Fire Hall until May 19^th.