In this holiday season like no other, the peninsula community is being challenged to fund its food banks.
Many businesses have been closed or slowed by covid, their employees laid off or working fewer hours. Even if covid hadnât happened, this winter would be difficult because of the delayed crab season and ongoing razor clam closure due to domoic toxin. Jessieâs Ilwaco Fish Company alone ordinarily provides dozens of jobs, but isnât likely to under its new owner until 2021.
All this bad news sends families to food banks in search of nutritional help. As it did last year, a local charitable foundation is providing a matching grant to encourage generosity.
The 91-year-old who shovels his neighbour s driveway and other random acts of kindness by Calgarians
Read heart-warming acts of kindness shared with CBC Calgary as we invite you to help Make the Season Kind with special programming and a coming together in support of the Calgary Food Bank.
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