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Your LOCAL Media since 1918! VOLUME 107: ISSUE 06
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Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Food Drive collects over 700 more pounds of food than in 2023
This year the Alberta Food Drive, organized in Tofield and Ryley by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Tofield, collected 2,546.5 pounds of donations. Pictured L-R, Tofield food bank volunteers Dawn Arnold, Sandy Brolly, Marcia Roughley, Barb Stauffer, Dolores Kristal, Holly Lybbert. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Kari Janzen Staff Reporter This year the Alberta Food Drive, organized in Tofield and Ryley by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Tofield, collected 2,546.5 pounds of donations. Empty donation bags were dropped off at doorsteps in the two municipalities in the days leading up to the collection date, and volunteers went door-to-door to pick up the donations on Saturday, Sept. 28. “This year’s food drive went very well. The 2,546.5 pounds (1,155 kilograms) collected this year is the secondlargest single year total since we started
the annual food drive in Tofield and Ryley in 2013,” Sherwood Park Stake Communications Tom Alston said. Last year over 1,800 pounds of donations were collected. Alston said the main reason that the church chooses to participate in the food drive every year is to show support for the community. “We just want to support our communities and have found this to be a good way to give back and help our neighbours and friends. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints enjoys this opportunity for ‘boots on the ground’ service, there were approximately 15 families from church that delivered about 900 bags and flyers this year, but
thanks really goes to the community for their continued and generous support,” he said. Tofield/Ryley and Area Food Bank Board Chair Dawn Arnold posted a thank you on social media, sharing the food bank’s appreciation of the annual food drive. “Thank you to the Tofield and Ryley communities for your very generous donation of 2,546.5 pounds of food for the Tofield/Ryley and Area Food Bank and to the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Tofield for spending their time distributing empty bags and picking up the full ones Saturday morning!”
“Neighbours helping neighbours is what this event is all about, so thank you Tofield and Ryley, and to the Food Bank for all they do,” Alston said.
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