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This article was published 07/06/2024 (665 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A food drive benefiting Samaritan House Ministries is back for its 20th anniversary this Saturday.
The Physiofirst Food First drive has collected tens of thousands of pounds of donations for the food bank since it was established in 2004. It has run almost every year since, except for some interruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The original concept saw residents leave out marked bags of donations for volunteers to pick up from around the city, or to drop off at a central location.
This year, volunteers will be set up in four locations in Brandon’s north, south, east and west, said Physiofirst senior physiotherapist Doug Treloar.
Donors can hand over non-perishable food items and other items like baby formula, diapers and toiletries at the Corral Centre Safeway at 921 18th St. North, Hometown Auto Glass at 710 First St., the Heritage Co-op Food Store at 1035 Richmond Ave. and Sobeys West at 3409 Victoria Ave. from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
“We’ve been really fortunate to partner up with groups and parking lots that are allowing us to do this event,” Treloar said.
The first year after COVID, they had donors drop off food at Samaritan House itself, but Treloar said it was a little difficult for people to get to.
“And so we thought, let’s try to go as close to the donors as we can and make it as easy for them as possible,” he said.
Good items to drop off, he said, are canned proteins like salmon and tuna and canned fruits and vegetables. Pasta is usually a popular donation, which Treloar said is great, but as a physio clinic they want to provide food bank users and their kids with a variety of nutritious foods to encourage long-term health benefits.
On top of the businesses hosting the drop-off points, he thanked Dennis Hunt and Investors Group for their sponsorship and advertisement of the event as well as his clinic’s staff.
In previous years, the goal was to collect 10,000 pounds of food. Post-COVID, Treloar said he doesn’t think that goal is realistic, but he’d like to build up toward big numbers in future years.
On the posters for the food drive is the slogan “purge the pantry.”
“We all probably know that we’ve got a couple of cans of pineapple tidbits that have slid to the back of the pantry or something else,” Treloar said.
“I don’t think we have to look too hard to find something to donate. Brandonites have been just phenomenal at supporting the event. We just hope that everyone can purge the pantry and help the community in need.”
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