Members of the Williams Lake Fire Department are answering the call to help out the Salvation Army Food Bank.
Their annual “Christmas in July Food Drive” will be happening tomorrow night (July 22) from 6 to 9.
“It started several years ago when the Salvation Army Food Bank was running low,” Deputy Fire Chief Brendan Foote said, “and they approached the Fire Department looking for some help. So we conducted a Food Drive and it was quite successful and helped replenish the Food Bank and ever since then it’s been an annual event.”
Foote added the Department tries to go out every July going to a bunch of different neighbourhoods in the Lake City asking for donations of non-perishable food items.
Last year Foote noted that the Food Drive was very good, although he didn’t have an exact number of the amount of food collected, he said but they did fill up a couple of the Salvation Army food delivery vans.
“We’ve always done very well with this Food Drive as the community has always been quite supportive.” Foote said, “Tomorrow night (Tuesday) between 6 and 9 we’ll be out in our Fire Trucks and our uniforms going door to door in some select neighourhoods in town looking for any non-perishable food donations. When it’s over we take the food back to fire hall and the next morning the Salvation Army comes and loads up their delivery van and brings it back to the Food Bank.”
The Williams Lake Fire Department will be collecting donations in the Westridge, Golf Course, Pigeon Avenue, Western Avenue, as well Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues.
“If the Fire Department is unable to come to your house to collect food tomorrow night, and you would still like to participate, just feel free to drop off any non-perishable food items to the Salvation Army Food Bank,” Foote said.
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