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Lumby Food Bank needs you

Residents of Lumby are being asked to support their local food bank tonight, by leaving donations on the curb.

The Lumby Food Bank assists over 50 local families each month and it needs your help keeping the shelves full.

Tonight, Wednesday Oct. 8 at 5:30 p.m., RCMP, Lumby Fire Services and BC Ambulance will team up with the Lumby Real Estate Association and a number of volunteers to go door to door collecting food donations.

The event called, Emergency Services Fight Back Against Hunger, is being brought to Lumby by Cst. Gary McLaughlin who lead the event in Revelstoke for the past four years.

McLaughlin started the initiative in 2010 when he partnered with Revelstoke RCMP, Fire and Ambulance Services to collect food door to door in their community.

Over the four years, the Revelstoke program grew to over 400 volunteers and collectively raised over 50,000 pounds of food and $30,000 dollars in donations for the Revelstoke Food Bank.

Cst. McLaughlin was recently transferred to the North Okanagan and has once again started up the initiative in Lumby.

Everyone in Lumby is asked to support the program tonight by placing non-perishable food items at the end of their driveway to be picked up by the volunteers.  



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