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Big Shout Out for food drive donors
or in storage at the food bank for when they are needed. «This will help fill our shelves for at least the first six months of the year,» Bernard said, adding that the cash donations will help provide non-food items necessary for families like toiletries or diapers for parents with infant children. Besides the regular band of volunteers the RocklandHelp Centre can call on during the annual food drive, also joining in for canvassing donations or sorting and pac- king the food items and other stuff as they came in at the drop-off site were students from local high schools, members of the Clarence-Rockland Fire Department, city council members and city staff, business owners, service club members, and youth groups like the Scouts, Guides, and Cadets. «None of this would happen,» said Ber- nard, «if not for the number of volunteers who help.»
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
Alain Bernard has been involved with, and spokesman for, the annual Clarence- Rockland Christmas FoodDrive/Guignolée de Clarence-Rockland for years now. At the close of the 24 th annual guignolée, he has just one thing to say. «Thank you everyone.» By the end of Sunday afternoon’s collec- tion drive over the Dec. 6 weekend, Bernard and other food drive organizers tallied up the cash donations dropped into collection tins and all the boxes of foodstuffs and other necessities to help local families in need.The day after, Bernard reported that this year’s guignolée saw a 10 per cent increase overall in both the amount of food donated and the amount of money collected by volunteers during their door-to-door canvassing. «Which is terrific,» he said, noting that the hope for this year was to see at least a three-per-cent increase in donations. As of Tuesday morning, the estimated total combined value of both food and cash donations is more than $35,000. That does not include yet the donations of food and coin waiting in drop-off boxes all around town. Bernard noted that all donations go straight to the Rockland Help Centre for
Food drive volunteers kept busy at the sorting and packing tables Sunday afternoon in the L’Escale cafetorium.
the annual Christmas Hamper program, which will help ensuremore than 250 fami- lies in the Clarence-Rockland area will have
a merrier Christmas than they might have expected this year. The remaining food and other items will go on the food bank shelves
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