Easter tradition marches on at Dew Drop Inn
Charity offers to-go dinners for Easter, with demand for support rising during the pandemic.
Apr 5, 2021 8:10 AM By: Ian Kaufman
Volunteers prepared hundreds of Easter meals to go on Sunday. (Ian Kaufman, tbnewswatch.com)
THUNDER BAY – Michael Quibell is looking forward to the day when he can once again sit down with patrons of the Dew Drop Inn for a meal.
In the meantime, though, the soup kitchen isn’t letting up on its giving tradition, offering hundreds of Easter meals to go Sunday afternoon to respect COVID-19 health measures.
The turkey dinner is a community effort, Quibell said, made possible with the help of volunteers who helped prepare and serve it, as well as community groups that support the Dew Drop Inn.
THUNDER BAY – Local groups offering food and shelter grappled with a Christmas like none other in living memory Friday, handing out hundreds of meals to go and foregoing traditional gatherings.
At the Shelter House in the city’s south end, volunteer Mandi O’Connor had prepared a massive, elaborate cake for the shelter’s Christmas dinner.
Few of the hundreds who enjoyed it would take in its full glory, however, as they picked up packaged meals outside the organization’s George Street location thanks to COVID-19 restrictions.
“It’s very different from our typical Christmases here – typically we’d have tablecloths on the table, we’d have a big sit-down dinner,” said executive director Michelle Jordan. “Usually we serve about 600 people.”
Thunder Bay shelter, soup kitchen prepare for holiday season and approaching lockdown
Usually staff and volunteers at Shelter House and the Dew Drop Inn in Thunder Bay Ont., are busy preparing for sit down dinner services for Christmas. This year, however, each organization has opted to only provide take-out meals to the community as their respective dining rooms stay closed to the public due the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Shelters including this 62-bed facility in Thunder Bay, Ont. can serve as an address for homeless people living there who want to vote in Canadian elections. (Nicole Ireland/CBC)