This weekend, come see our caring community at its best, as hundreds of volunteers collect cash and potatoes at grocery stores for Supermarket Potato Blitz 2019, in support of House of Friendship’s Emergency Food Hampers.
On Saturday, Feb. 9, approximately 400 volunteers will be on hand to receive cash and potato donations from the community, all to meet the need of local families living on low income.
The Supermarket Blitz, held at 28 stores throughout Kitchener, Waterloo and Elmira, and is also supported by businesses, schools and faith communities in the month of February.
The Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank will also run their own Supermarket Blitz to benefit Cambridge residents.
Amazing community partners have come together for the enormous job of potato logistics. The Food Bank of Waterloo Region has generously loaned warehouse space for event day and Erb Transport will store and transport potatoes to House of Friendship until all the fresh potatoes are used up. Donations will be used in House of Friendship’s Emergency Food Hampers program throughout the year.
Come and be inspired by some other remarkable community volunteers and leaders including Waterloo Regional Police Service team members, (Beechwood Zehrs), former Regional Councillor Jane Mitchell (Food Basics Laurelwood), Waterloo Fire Rescue (Sobeys, Parkside Dr.) and former Waterloo Mayor Brenda Halloran (Sobeys, Ira Needles).
For added fun, members of the Waterloo Regional Police Service and Waterloo Fire Rescue will also be challenging the community to “stuff a cruiser”/ “stuff a fire truck” with potatoes at their respective locations. Volunteers and donors are the heroes of the day! Their combined efforts will fill empty stomachs.
Members of the public can drop off their donations of cash or potatoes on Saturday, Feb. 9 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the following locations:
For more information, visit our Potato Blitz page.
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