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A new project is offering everyone an opportunity to showcase their culture by submitting traditional food recipes for a community cookbook while raising money for local food programs.
“Local historian and author, Diane Armstrong, came up with the idea and it took off from there,” said, executive director Jennifer Vachon for Anti-Hunger Coalition Timmins. “One of Anti-Hunger Coalition Timmins’ board members reached out to community partners to see if there would be interest in working together on this cookbook project and there was.”
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Registration underway for annual event being held next month
Author of the article: Richa Bhosale
Publishing date: Jan 15, 2021 • January 15, 2021 • 1 minute read • Jennifer Vachon, executive director with the Anti-Hunger Coalition Timmins (ACT), right and the program manager for the group, Amber McLaughlin, are encouraging people to register for their upcoming Coldest Night of the Year annual event next month. RICHA BHOSALE/The Daily Press jpg, TD
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Organizers say the annual Coldest Night of the Year (CNOY) fundraiser being held next month will be a “virtual event.”
There had been talk giving participants the option of joining in an in-person event or a virtual.
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“We are offering an in-person event on February 20
th but it will be 100% outdoors and completely COVID safe,” she remarks. “Of course, that’s if there’s no lockdown at the time.”
Option number two is virtual, walking on any day of the month, “either with their team or if their team decides that it’s safer or they prefer to do it individually on their own, they can that as well.”
The important thing is that walkers collect pledges for their efforts. Registration is available at Anti-Hunger Coalition Timmins.