Donors in Thanksgiving spirit - Winnipeg Free Press

Share Your Thanks food drive covered by the Winnipeg Free Press:

Donors in Thanksgiving spirit - Winnipeg Free Press

Share Your Thanks Food Sorting Pics

The Share Your Thanks event at Winnipeg Harvest was a huge success! Over 200 people came together to help sort food that will restock the shelves at Winnipeg Harvest. We are hoping to beat last year's number of 170,000 pounds of food. We'll let you know by the end of October!

In the meantime, here are some pics from Saturday:

(Truck drivers picked up the donations)

(People of all ages helped out)

(There was pie for everyone!)

(smiling volunteers)

(Lunchtime)

(Sherri Walsh, Winnipeg Harvest Board President)

(Volunteers sorting donations)

Thanks again to all of Winnipeg Harvest's hard-working volunteers!

Share Your Thanks Fall Food Drive

The Winnipeg Free Press generously distributed 122,000 "Share Your Thanks" brown grocery bags last month to Winnipeg area homes so they could be filled with groceries for those Winnipeg Harvest shares food with.
Volunteers and staff will gather to help spread the generosity of Manitobans, by sorting the "Share your Thanks" bags.

The bags will help Winnipeg Harvest serve growing needs:

• The number of students (aged 6-18) needing food bank assistance went up by nearly 24% over the last year. 
• Winnipeg Harvest also is sharing food with more EI Recipients (an 84% increase), those with no income (a 24% increase) and the working poor (a 17% increase) than this time last year.

Overall, the number of people needing Winnipeg Harvest's services is up 21% from the same period one year ago. We need the public's help more than ever to help fight hunger in Manitoba.

We invite the public media to join us:
Saturday, October 10th at 10:30am, at the Winnipeg Harvest warehouse, 1085 Winnipeg Ave.

Turtle Lodge Celebrates Giving to Winnipeg

Join Turtle Lodge tomorrow (Saturday, Oct. 10) as Aboriginal torchrunners, dancers and musicians help lead the Celebration of Giving - a benefit for Winnipeg Harvest at The Forks.

They will also be joined by drummers from the Aboriginal, Japanese, African, and Celtic traditions.

Also joining the Celebration of Giving will be the highly acclaimed Aboriginal Music Tour, which includes Shy-Anne Hovorka, Missy Knott, Nylin White, and Chris Sutherland (aka Shibastik the Fantastik).

A Celebration of Giving is part of Winnipeg Harvest’s annual Share Your Thanks campaign, which takes place every Thanksgiving weekend.

The public and the media are invited to join in, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Oodena Circle at The Forks, immediately east of the Johnson Terminal.

Share Your Thanks Food Drive

Help feed over 40,000 Manitobans this Thanksgiving by bringing in your Share Your Thanks paper bags to any Canada Safeway store. Thanksgiving's quickly approaching, and we still need your help!

How else can you help?

• Fill the bag with non-perishable items
• Feed a Family through a donation ($20 of food for each $1)
• Volunteer at the Winnipeg Harvest warehouse
• Fast on October 10 to celebrate Thanksgiving

If you didn't get your brown paper bag in the mail, Canada Safeway also has $5 and $10 pre-packaged hampers that can be bought in lieu of food donated.

Don't let Manitoba go hungry this Thanksgiving.

 

More Share Your Thanks Photos...

I've located a few extra pics from the September 28 press conference at Sisler High School, and thought I'd share them with the rest of our readers...

(George Matheson of the Manitoba Pork Council adressing the press conference)

(general shot of the press conference)

(John Graham of Canada Safeway addressing the press conference)

A big thanks again to the Students of Sisler Environmental Helpers, and those who have been bringing in food for the Share Your Thanks food drive.

Sisler High School Shares Their First Harvest

Students at Sisler High School involved in the “Students of Sisler Environmental Helpers” (S.O.S.E.H.) planted their first apple tree last year hoping it would bear fruit.

The Sisler students donated their first “harvest” of apples to Winnipeg Harvest this past Monday in celebration of the Share Your Thanks food drive, an important campaign that helps Winnipeg Harvest restock it's shelves in time for Thanksgiving.

(Three S.O.S.E.H. students with one of the apple trees in the Sisler courtyard orchard)

(David Northcott, Marlisa Vergara, and Parbinder Gill)

(David Northcott receiving the first harvest of apples from Sisler students)

Share Your Thanks

Starting this weekend, 122,000 brown grocery bags are being delivered to Winnipeg homes courtesy of the Winnipeg Free Press. Winnipeg Harvest is asking people to share their thanks and good fortunte with those in our community who are in need.

From now until Thanksgiving, simply fill the grocery bag with non-perishable food items and drop it off at your local Canada Safeway; or during your shop purchase a $5 or $10 pre-packaged food hamper.

Thanksgiving is the traditional time of harvest, a time to celebrate a good crop and our good fortune with family and friends. We usually load up our grocery carts with special purchases to make Thanksgiving dinner a memorable one. But the holiday can be bleak for many of our most vulnerable citizens. Winnipeg Harvest thanks you for Sharing Your Thanksgiving. Most grocery outlets are equipped with bins near the front of their store to accept your donation of groceries to Winnipeg Harvest year round.