Brandonites turn out for french fry giveaway
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This article was published 19/08/2021 (1849 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Members of the John Howard Society of Brandon gave away 60,000 pounds of frozen french fries to members of the public on Wednesday, not wanting this surplus food from Simplot to go to waste.
This massive food giveaway kicked off at 11 a.m. in the city’s downtown core, with John Howard Society volunteers parking a roughly 50-foot trailer in a vacant lot across from Komfort Kitchen.
For the first hour and a half, boxes of frozen french fries were given out exclusively to representatives from social agencies, including Helping Hands Centre of Brandon, the Hartney food bank and the Brandon Friendship Centre.
At 12:30 p.m., members of the public were then invited to grab as many frozen french fries as they could carry, alongside some fresh carrots and cucumbers that were also being distributed for free at the same site.
According to John Howard Society executive director Ross Robinson, the trailer was completely empty by 4 p.m.
“We’re really, really grateful with the amount of people who came forward, the amount of organizations that came forward, people picking up for their neighbours and their friends,” he told the Sun afterwards.
“It was just a real community event.”
Robinson said the John Howard Society got hold of these surplus french fries through the group Second Harvest, which bills itself as the largest food rescue organization in Canada.
Second Harvest has been supplying the John Howard Society with food for over a year now, which has helped keep local meal programs like Everyone Eats fully stocked.
“And by continuing to be good partners with Second Harvest, we know that we’re going to get more of these events in the future,” Robinson said.
For more information on the John Howard Society’s Everyone Eats program, visit everyoneeatsbrandon.ca.
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