Last year the number of Canadian families requesting food assistance had reached an all-time high, with Alberta, unfortunately, having the highest food bank use in the country, according to Food Banks Canada's Hunger Count Report for 2022 .
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If Suzan Krecsy was a meteorologist, she’d not only be predicting but hoping for showers to continue in the St. Albert area Saturday. The only difference here is Krecsy isn’t talking about buckets of rain. She’s talking about human kindness.
Krecsy is executive director of the St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village. She’s overseeing and organizing the agency’s first-ever food drive Saturday.
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“We have been showered with kindness since the (COVID-19) pandemic was called,” Krescy said in an email exchange.