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Tim Jones, who oversees volunteers at the Bread of Life on Third Avenue, has been volunteering at the soup kitchen for 19 years.
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he cupboards are full but the bank account is bare this year, and that is a concern for the Bread of Life. “We’re high on donations of food, low on financial donations,” said Stacie Camponi, outgoing coordinator at the facility on Third Avenue
in south Port Alberni. The soup kitchen usually receives enough cash donations in November and December to carry them through the rest of the year. Right now they only have $10,000 in the bank, where they would normally have $15,000 or more. “We’re two-thirds behind where we need to be,” said new board member Dennis
Dalla-Vicenza. The Port Alberni Toy Run donated $1,000, the BOL’s annual Harvest Dinner raised another $2,000 and various individual donations totalling $1,000 have also come in. While there are no pressing capital projects aside from the kitchen exhaust fan that needs to be replaced, there are still fixed costs, said Dalla-Vicenza.
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