A busload of good deeds Organizers of the Boom Feeds Kids event were positively surprised when the donations they received exceeded their expectations on June 10. — supplied photo
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bus. “They told us that there was too much weight on the bus and that the suspension might become damaged,” said an excited Halman. “It’s crazy. We never thought we would have that many donations.” As he was being interviewed, more and more members of the community were loading up the bus. Already, the last seats were filled with non-perishable foods of all kinds. “We’ve seen adults but also families,” said the director. “Some simply stop on the side of the road and we go pick their donations up at their window.” Several local businesses also contributed to the event, including but not limited to Séguin Patate and Mr. Lube. “A lot of businesses have stepped up,” explainedHalman. “Séguin Patate was there early in themorning.They had filled the back of a pickup truck with donations.” The event, the first of its kind in Cornwall, garnered a lot of interest from bystanders, as several of them stopped on their walk down Pitt Street in order to inquire about what was happening. “We’ve been working on this project for several months,” admitted Halman. “It’s great to see it take off. We really hope we can do this next year as well!”
The team at Chorus Entertainment was hoping to fill an entire city bus with non- perishable food items during the Boom Feeds Kids event. Yet by two in the afternoon, the bus was overflowing with donations and a second bus had to take its place. Early in the morning, when most of Pitt Street is silent, both Boom 101.9 and 104.5 Fresh Radio were already broadcasting live. “We started at 6:30 in themorning,” said Bill Halman, programdirector for both stations. “There were a lot of people going on to work who would drop by and give us a bag of donations.” But non-perishables weren’t the only thing Cornwall citizens dropped off. The recipient of the project was none other than the Agapè Centre, the city’s only food bank and soup kitchen. “We are also accepting monetary donations as well,” stated Halman. “The Agapè Centre likes to get grocery store gift cards. They have a lot of buying power.” The donations kept coming and, in the afternoon, city employees alerted the organizers that they would have to empty the
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