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Food bank building nears completions
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THE LAKE COUNTRY FOOD BANK building next to the Winfield Seniors Centre is almost ready to start receiving donations of food and serving clients.
Lake Country Rotary Club president Monika Jatel (inset, left) hands over the keys to the new food bank building to Lake Country Food Assistance Society board member Beverly Marsh. The District of Lake Country has committed to finish the paving and landscaping while the siding will be completed soon.
Key exchange from builders to servers KEVIN PARNELL
The Lake Country Food Assistance Society has been given the keys to a new building, in a celebration to welcome a new home for the Lake Country Food Bank, a
process that took five years to realize. More than a hundred people crammed into the brand new, 2,600-square-foot food bank building last Wednesday afternoon to celebrate the culmination of
a community project that raised the new building from the ground up with donations of money, supplies, grants and good old hard work. It was a project put together by the Rotary Club, which five years
ago began to investigate the possibility of finding a new home and last March broke ground on the building, valued at $1 million. “It’s just so amazing we were able to get it done in the timeframe,”
said Bob Rymarchuk, of the Lake Country Rotary Club. “We put the shovels in the ground without knowing we had enough money to do the job. It was a leap of faith.” The shovels went into the ground just months
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