By Aaron Schulze

Northeast food banks running thin

Sep 12, 2018 | 5:00 PM

The Nipawin Salvation Army is asking the public with any extra non-perishable food items and hygienic products to donate them to their food back, as they announced its shelves have become bare.

Sheri Fengstad, community services director for the Nipawin and Tisdale Salvation Army told northeastNOW they usually put a call out for donations at this time of year.

“They generally do tend to be get down low this time of year because people are concentrating more on getting their kids back to school,” Fengstad said. “So they aren’t really thinking of donating to the food bank.”

Fengstad said the people who are in need this time of year have had to spend their money on back to school clothes and supplies.

The Salvation Army Food Bank in Tisdale was previously in the same boat, but after a three-pallet donation from Buy-Low Foods, it’s currently comfortable.

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Food typically doesn’t get moved to other locations, as the Salvation Army have heard from people who have donated they would like to see the food and items they have donated to stay in the community.

Fengstad said food that’s about to expire is the exception.

The Melfort & Area Food Bank also said they’re in desperate need as they see somewhere between 60 and 80 people daily.

The Salvation Army locations in Nipawin and Tisdale are open from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the Melfort Food Bank is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

aaron.schulze@jpbg.ca

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