Ste-Geneviève United Church's Annual Food Drive - 2008

Every fall Ste-Genny's organizes a Food Drive. Over a period of 10 weeks non-perishable foods, household items, etc. are collected. A few days before Christmas, all the food collected is put on tables in McNevan Hall and Christmas Baskets are prepared for and delivered to needy families in our neighbourhood.

This year we welcome Émily Rioux as our new coordinator. We also thank Bob Phelps and Sylvie Parent, our previous coordinators, for their leadership in the past years.

Our 2007 Food Drive was a great success. During the bagging of groceries at Maxi & cie we collected $1,773. Under the contractual agreement with Maxi, $177 was returned to their "President's Choice Children's Charity". The remaining $1,596 was used to buy additional food supplies for our hampers. It was a "WIN/WIN" for all parties concerned. We distributed food to more than 20 families as well as a local food bank. Again, thank you very much.

Please help to make our 2008 FOOD DRIVE as successful as it was last year!

Posted December 20, 2008: Our 2008 Food Drive was again a great success. We distributed food hampers as well as toys for the kids to 29 families. Our givings were so abundant that we could also deliver many boxes of food and Christmas hampers to Norma McCallister and Cheshire. Thank you all for your contributions of food, toys, goods, money, time, muscle (lifting/carrying boxes) and smiles.

We ask for your help with the following:

• Sunday, October 12 - Sunday, December 14: Everybody is invited to bring in 1 non-perishable food item, etc. per person / per week. … We have provided a suggested shopping list with ideas of items to bring here. (Ici vous trouvez une version française.) It is ready for printing such that you can put it on your refrigerator as a reminder. Watch the local flyers for special savings and purchase the items at discount prices or go to SOS Cuisine to find This Week's Specials!!!! You can also make a special monetary donation; just mark  the amount with the notation Food Drive on your church envelope.

• Starting mid November: Volunteers are needed to tally and box for storage the Food Items collected weekly. Please contact the church office.

• Saturday, November 15: Once again we will be bagging groceries at Maxi & cie to collect non perishable food donations and monetary donations to go towards easing the costs of additional purchases for the food hampers…  Watch for the sign up sheet! Maxi & cie is located at the north-east corner of the Transcanada and boul. St-Jean. UPDATE (20 Nov 08): This year we collected $1,604, of which $160 went to Maxi's "President's Choice Children's Charity" and $1,444 to our food drive. Thanks very much to all the volunteers who helped make this event a success.


• Sunday, November 30: The Food Drive Organizing Committee will meet immediately following the worship service to discuss the organizational aspects of December 19 and 20 mentioned below.
  

• Friday, December 19: Starting at 7:00 pm. All the food collected will be put on tables in McNevan Hall, sorted by type. We need your help putting out all the items.

• Saturday, December 20: In the morning, starting at 9:00 am, people will be "shopping". You will be given the "names" (e.g. mom, dad and three kids, ages this, that and that) of a family and fill several empty cardboard boxes with goods for this family. If you can, please bring a cart such that you don't have to carry the boxes which may be heavy when full. In late morning, the beginning of the afternoon all boxes will be delivered to the families. If you have a van, strong hands and a good back we ask for your help with this.