Along with the fall season’s many activities comes Oliver’s annual right-on-your-doorstep opportunity to help get those shelves at our local food bank stocked for winter. Soon volunteers will be traversing Oliver and communities all over BC on foot to distribute donation bags and pick up food donations. You might not think a few cans and boxes of food collected on each street would add up to much, but it really does! Oliver donated over 7000 pounds of food last year.  Oliver residents’ generosity in supporting the BC Thanksgiving Food Drive over the last 7 years has meant that our Oliver Food Bank has fed many people in need. Every month, approximately 500 people use the Oliver Food Bank to feed themselves and their families.

A sincere thank you to all who have donated in the past and to our community partners for helping get your donations to the Oliver Food Bank. Thanks to the Oliver Food Bank, Kevin’s NoFrills, Casorso and Company Chartered Professional Accountants, Sunridge Landscapes, Oliver/Osoyoos Sikh Temple, Oliver Alliance Church Youth, The Best of India Restaurant, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-days Saints and Oliver Dental Care.

Food drive volunteers will be delivering food donation bags the week of September 10th, 2018 to many Oliver homes for the 8th Annual BC Thanksgiving Food Drive.  The donations in support of the Oliver Food Bank will be picked up on Saturday, September 15th.  Those who do not receive a bag can drop off non-perishable food donations before September 15th at the Best of India Restaurant (6390 Main St) or the Oliver/Osoyoos Sikh Temple. We will also collect bags at the Oliver Food Bank (6047 Station St.) between 10:00 am and 1:00 pm on collection day: September 15th, 2018.

For more information please visit www.bctfooddrive.org

or contact Jordan Noftle, Oliver Coodinator at jordannoftle@hotmail.com

BC Thanksgiving Food Drive