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Help Friends help hunger disappear event

This Saturday, food businesses are organizing a drive to benefit the Friends in Need Food Bank.

This Saturday, food businesses are organizing a drive to benefit the Friends in Need Food Bank.

The event will be held at Save-On-Foods, 22703 Lougheed Highway in Maple Ridge, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

It is designed to help food banks across B.C. bridge a spring gap when food bank donations typically decline.

The public is being asked to help fill bins with non-perishable food, joining schools and businesses that are collecting donations.

The Help Hunger Disappear program is an initiative by Save-On-Foods and the Campbell Company of Canada, and is now in its sixth year.

Shoppers can help support food banks in their communities with a purchase of any four Campbell’s soups or broths, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers or snacks, or V8 beverages.

They will receive $1 off their purchase and Campbell will donate up to $40,000 to local food banks through an in-store Help Hunger Disappear coupon.

B.C. food banks are visited by nearly 100,000 people very month, and 29 per cent of these are children and youth.



Neil Corbett

About the Author: Neil Corbett

I have been a journalist for more than 30 years, the past decade with the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News.
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