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Friday, September 27, 2013
David Foster wants your barbecue Foundation launches scrap metal collection program Kyle Slavin News staff
The David Foster Foundation wants your old barbecues, pots and pans and car parts to help support Canadian families who have a child in need of an organ transplant. A new partnership between the charity and Schnitzer Steel will allow for donations to come in the form of scrap metal. Schnitzer will give the cash value of donated metal to the David Foster Foundation. To launch this new partnership, four Greater Victoria RBC locations – another foundation partner – are hosting scrap metal drives this weekend (Sept. 27 and 28). “With the change in the economic environment, the foundation is really reaching out to its national and regional partners for unique donations, ... rather than simply asking for cash donations,” said foundation spokesperson Brian Cant. Greater Victoria residents are urged to drop off their scrap metal – unwanted appliances, cables and wires, even old cars – between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the Uptown, Broadmead, Esquimalt or Westshore RBC branches on Friday and Saturday. All ferrous and nonferrous metals are accepted. “I don’t think a car is going to fit in one of the recycle bins, but we’ll gladly accept it,” Cant said with a laugh. “If somebody does have a scrap car they want to bring, we’ll connect them with Schnitzer to assist them with that.” For details visit davidfosterfoundation.com. kslavin@saanichnews.com
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From left, Chuck Nesbitt, Bill Foster, Donna Bramsten, Don Ferrier and Noel Bramsten of the Sidney Lions Food Bank took a moment to pose for the camera before they got back to sorting food collected during the B.C. Thanksgiving Food Drive this past weekend. The food drive raised over 21,000 pounds of food for the local not-for-profit service.
Thanksgiving food drive successful Over 20,000 pounds of food collected for local food bank Devon MacKenzie News staff
The B.C. Thanksgiving Food Drive raised over 20,000 pounds of food for the Sidney Lions Food Bank last weekend. The initiative, which is organized all over the province annually, is coordinated locally by the Sidney Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints and sees the Sidney Lions Food Bank shelves stocked each year. “This was an amazing year, we had 21,000 pounds of food donated to us,” said Bill Foster, the president of the Sidney Lions Food Bank. “Volunteers from the church handled everything,” he added,
including collection bag hand outs the week prior, the collection of the food from homes all over the Saanich Peninsula, the sorting of the food at the church as well as providing a flatbed truck and driver to get the palettes of food over to the food bank. “It is really amazing, it was almost double the amount of
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food that they collected last year. We are so thankful to the volunteers who helped out,” he said. The Sidney Lions Food Bank serves over 1,200 clients, many of them children and seniors, on the Saanich Peninsula each month. reporter@peninsula newsreview.com