Ai2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 714, 2005

_ Food bank gears up ©

for another season

starting next month

‘THE TERRACE Churches Food Bank is
~ organizing volunteers to sort its first large
. batch of products in preparation for its first
distribution of the season next month.
“We have tremendous volunteers and
..good ongoing support,” said food bank trea-
surer Dennis Brewer last week of the prepa-

rations.

Money for. the purchase comes from a
cash reserve the food bank has in-place but
it is now soliciting donations to keep finan-

_ cially healthy.

In support of those donations, the, food
bank has signed on to a national Kraft Cana-

da campaign, says Brewer.

‘The goal is to raise $300,000 across the
country, half raised by donations which will

then be matched by Kraft.

" The key to the donations is that every dol-
_lar raised locally stays with the food bank

here, said Brewer.

“The amount then gets added to the-na-
tional total and Kraft will then match it,” he

added.

portioned out across the country according
to the size of each participating food bank.

“What this means is we'll get a percent-

age back,” said Brewer of the campaign.

He said he estimates the food bank. buys
approximately $7,500 of products each

month, an amount that does not include di-
rect food donations.

The food bank’s season begins in Octo-
’ ber and lasts until May but does not operate

in December as that’s when the Salvation
Army conducts its Christmas hamper pro-
‘gram.. 0.

Next month's distribution period takes
place from Oct. 17 to Oct. 20.

Donations that are part of the Kraft Cana-
_da matching campaign can be mailed to The
‘Terrace Churches Food Bank, 4012 Ander-

son St., Terrace, B.C. V8G 2T2 or dropped
off at the Terrace and District. Credit Union
on Lazelie Ave.

MLA on rural group _

SKEENA MLA Robin Aus-
tin is one of eight New Dem-

- ocrat MLAs from rural areas

who have banded together to

form the interior rural NDP.
. most of the rural questions .
“to them.”

“Caucus.
- The group is designed

for interior and rural MLAs |

to speak with. one voice to

draw more attention to rural

issues.

The group. was formed
at last week’s NDP caucus
meetings in Victoria. ©

“Corky Evans, a cabinet

minister in- past NDP gOv-_

ernments who re-entered
“politics in the May provin-

cial election, was elected —

chair of the new caucus.

-. Austin says the commit-
tee has its work cut out for
it in light of cuts which have
hit. rural communities ‘hard

‘since the Campbell govern-—

ment took over in-2001.

“We want to highlight —

issues of things like service
delivery, how it’s .different
to run a school system in a
rural community versus an
urban area,” Austin says.
‘Hospital closures in other
rural areas have a much more
serious impact on people

‘who then have to drive or

fly to get medical services,
he said.

_ “Cuts matter much more
up here,” the MLA contin-

_ ued,

Austin was also selected

to sit on the four-person -
committee of the entire NDP ©

caucus which will decide
what questions to ask during

_ question period in the legis-
lature. :

the only rural-based MLA |
_in that committee, so I’'m~

“ment’s first order of business .

‘spring because of the elec- —
tion.

Et s very exciting, very
exciting,” Austin says. “I’m

the one that will be bringing

The provincial legislature
resumed sitting this week
and the provincial govern-

is to submit a budget.
That wasn’t done in the ~

Robin Austin |

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