Month-Long Food Drive Announced for Peterborough County
/Kawartha Food Share will host a county-wide food drive during June to support local food banks was announced in a Zoom meeting media release on Tuesday morning.
Kawartha Food Share’s “Porch Pirates for Good” food drive held on April 9 and 10 received more than 50,000 pounds of food for both days. This broke the previous record of 26,000 pounds. File Photo.
The campaign is meant to restock the food banks across the county by partnering with local grocery stores.
Peterborough-Kawartha MPP Dave Smith will take part in the food drive and helped the “Winter is Coming Food Drive” in November last year. The campaign raised almost $40,000 worth of cash and food donations.
“Every opportunity to support our townships is an opportunity that can’t be passed up,” said Smith. “COVID-19 has placed tremendous stress on the support system in our rural communities; these food banks support many families and it is critical these supports remain strong.”
He noted that grocery stores in Peterborough, Havelock, Bridgenorth Buckhorn and Lakefield are participating in the drive.
Kawartha Food Share typically distributes 150,000-200,000 pounds of food in a month which feeds over 9,000 individuals. File Photo.
The first and special drive will be held at Morello’s Your Independent Grocers on Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The cause is to support the Apsley foodbank, who has lost its community’s only grocery store in a fire in December 2020.
“On behalf of Apsley and North Kawartha, I want to thank Morello’s Your Independent Grocer for hosting a special food drive to support our local food bank,” said Carolyn Amyotte, North Kawartha Mayor. “Not having Sayer’s Foods to host our own food drive right now is very hard.”
The following is a list of participating grocery stores, dates, times and locations:
Photo Courtesy of Dave Smith.
