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February Potato Blitz

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This year, House of Friendship will use approximately 170,000 pounds of potatoes in food hampers and meals across its 18 programs. To meet this need for emergency food assistance, we host an annual February Potato Blitz.

Thanks to February Potato Blitz media sponsors:

Thanks For 170,000 Pounds of Friendship!!

  • DON CAMERON POTATO NIGHT on Tuesday January 26 got the 2010 February Potato Blitz off to a great start with Rangers fans donating the equivalent of 50,000 lbs of potatoes!  Along with Loblaw’s matching donation of 2,000 lbs of potatoes, it was the most successful Potato Night in the events thirteen year history. Thank you Rangers fans, Don Cameron, the Kitchener Rangers Hockey Club, media partners, and Loblaw!

  • Local shoppers got into the game as well during the 2010 SUPERMARKET BLITZ at twelve participating grocery stores in Kitchener-Waterloo (see below). Volunteers from five Presbyterian churches (Calvin, Kitchener East, Knox, St. Andrew's and Doon), along with volunteers from Calvary and Parkminster United churches, Christ Lutheran Church,and St. Louis Catholic Church collected the equivalent of 100,395 pounds of potatoes, which were picked up by volunteers from Steinmann Mennonite Church and taken to the J. Steckle Heritage Homestead for storage. Thanks to the many volunteers, grocery stores and donors for making this event such a success again.
    • Central Meat Market, Kitchener
    • Food Basics - Fairway Road
    • Sobeys – Highland Road West, Weber and Northfield, and Bridgeport Road East locations, Kitchener
    • Sobeys – Columbia West, Waterloo
    • Zehrs markets – Pioneer Park Plaza and Stanley Park Mall locations, Kitchener
    • Zehrs markets – Zehrs Plaza (Beechwood), Glenridge and Conestoga Mall locations, Waterloo
    • Valumart, Waterloo

  • At the 2010 COMMUNITY POTATO LUNCH at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, guests donated $2,230 and enjoyed a complimentary lunch that included homemade potato soups, baked potatoes, and potatoe cakes. It was also an opportunity to thank and recognize the many volunteers, partners and sponsors who contributed to the success of the Blitz.

Thanks to your support for these events and additional Blitz donations, House of Friendship collected the equivalent (cash and potatoes) of 250,000 pounds of potatoes. The success of the February Potato Blitz is vital to House of Friendship's ability to have enough potatoes to help meet record need in its Emergency Food Hamper program, which distributed 33,154 food hampers in 2009.

Thank you for supporting the February Potato Blitz & Helping Feed Our Neighbours in Need