WINDSOR, ONT. Windsor Lifeline Outreach is receiving a $288,406 boost in food contribution thanks to a local grocery store. MR Meat Markets announced Wednesday the store has broken the quarter-million-dollar mark (and counting) in food donations to the organization this year as the need has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. “During this pandemic, there was a large increase in clients requesting food,” Nello Paolini, Windsor Lifeline Outreach president, said in a news release. “WLO recognized the need to deliver skids of food to agencies that had set-up distribution sites in low-income areas of Windsor/Essex county” Howard Mulder, board member and food distribution director with the organization said WLO has gone from trying to serve 750 families per month to about 2,000, including some senior buildings.