Food Bank Donation

Jeff Green | Jan 11, 2017

MPP Randy Hiller (L) and Shawn Morrison (R from the office of MP Scott Reid, each presenting $650 cheques to David Townsend of the Southern Frontenac Community Services Food Bank on December 22. Hillier raises money from the community each year by selling turkey’s of $100 each. They then buy turkeys at a lower price, this year from Trousdale’s Foodland in Sydenham, and put the profits into a fund. Some community members even donate the $100 and don’t take a turkey. Hillier’s office raised $650 this year, and Scott Reid has matched that donation.

“Each year we donate the money somewhere in the Riding,” Hillier said, “last year it was Napanee and this year we came here to the Southern Frontenac Community Services Food Bank.

“The money really helps,” said David Townsend, “because in addition to the mountains of food that people donate each year, we need between thirty and thirty five thousand dollars to buy meat and eggs and fresh vegetables to fill our needs.

Townsend showed Hillier and Morrison around the brand new Food bank space in a converted portable at the Grace Centre on Stagecoach Road, where SFCS has just consolidated all of its services and administrative offices.

“We just received our occupancy permit for this space this week,” Townsend said, “and the Food Bank has 1/3 more space than it had when it was located at our former office on George Street. The savings we will realize as an agency from not paying rent will all go into services.”