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Christmas is a time of celebration for most of us. It is also a time to reflect on our good fortune and to help those less fortunate than ourselves.
Filling Christmas hampers for the less fortunate this season in the Tri-Cities means giving early and giving often.
Holiday hampers were supposed to go out this weekend but there’s not enough food to fill them, says Share Family and Community Services, so the community is being asked to donate now instead of waiting until Christmas.
On Share’s food list this week are canned meals, Kraft Dinner, canned vegetables, including canned tomatoes, tomato sauce, pasta, rice, juice and peanut butter.
Donors can deliver donations directly to the Share food bank (2615 Clarke St., Port Moody, in the rear, off Spring Street) weekdays from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. or drop off food at the following stores:
• Safeway stores at Burquitlam Plaza, Sunwood Square and Austin Avenue in Coquitlam, and Shaughnessy Station in Port Coquitlam;
• Save-On Foods in Coquitlam’s Pinetree Village and in PoCo on Ottawa Street;
• Thrifty Foods at Austin Avenue and Mariner Way in Coquitlam and Suter Brook in Port Moody;
• Real Canadian Superstore at Lougheed and Schoolhouse or Lougheed and Westwood in Coquitlam;
• Coopers Foods at Coast Meridian and Prairie Avenue in PoCo;
• Marketplace IGA at Westwood Plateau Shoppers Village on Johnson Street in Coquitlam;
• Costco in PoCo.
So far 1,558 families have registered for a holiday hampers and more are expected to register this week. Share expects a 20% increase over the 1,677 families who got a hamper last year.
Source: Tri-City News
