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“The demographic has changed,” Waite said. “We’re seeing working people, mainly servers.” The pandemic has been brutal on the hospitality sector.
“People come in here crying because they’ve never been in a food bank before and don’t know the process.”
Yes, well, we’ve heard a lot of that this year, not just from CMS it stands for Cobble Hill, Mill Bay and Shawnigan Lake but from food banks in Sooke, Nanaimo, Duncan, the West Shore, the Saanich Peninsula, the Comox Valley…
The good news? All of them, along with the Salvation Army, Mustard Seed Street Church, Victoria Women’s Transition House and a dozen other agencies from Campbell River to Mayne Island, just shared a quarter million bucks that dropped in their laps, unexpectedly, courtesy of the Times Colonist Christmas Fund last week. ....

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