Friends In Need Food Bank
8-22726 Dewdney Trunk Road V2X 3K2 Maple Ridge, BC, Canada

THANK YOU BC HYDRO POWER PIONEERS!!! Bryan Bodell presented a cheque to Nancy Nagy for $620.00 from B.C. Hydro Power Pioneers Fraser Valley. Thank you to Bernadette who included us in their annual community giving.

Rain or Shine the CRC Bottle & Food Drive will be happening!!!!

CRC Bottle & Food Drive is this Saturday. Please support the Friends in Need with donations of non-perishable foods, refundable bottles & cans or cash. And a BIG thank you to all of the CRC volunteers for helping The Friends in Need!

NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK The Friends in Need Food Bank thanks all of our wonderful volunteers for their dedication and service especially during these unprecedented times. National Volunteer Week (NVW) is a time to collectively cheer the individual and combined contributions that almost 13 million Canadian volunteers make all year round. #VolunteersBringChange #NVW2021

We can’t wait to see the parade! This is a very unique fundraiser for food banks. Travis - Thank you for organizing this event and for caring. We will see you in the 24th!

The Friends in Need Food Bank will be closed for client services December 25 to January 4, 2021. Client services will resume on Tuesday, January 5, 2021. Merry Christmas and wishing you all a Happy, Healthy New Year.

Colleen Redekop, Project Clerk for Fortis BC just stopped by the Friends in Need and presented a cheque to Nancy Nagy In the amount of $5000! Thank you to all of the employees of Fortis BC for their continuing support of the food bank.

Broken Balls Golf Tournament 2020 continues to support the Friends in Need. Adam Seward with his son Nash & his dad Alphonse stopped by the Foodbank with a donation of $2,852 & 410 lbs of food. Alphonse Seward & his best friend John Johnson started the tournament 34 years ago and to date have donated more than $26,000 to the Friends in Need. After 26 years of organizing the tournament they passed the reigns on to Adam who because of COVID, set up a virtual donation option. H...e says another $1,375 was collected online which brings the total for this year to $4,200. I’m really impressed with our group and their generosity this year, said Adam. Glad we could continue the tradition and make a donation comparable to previous years. #brokenballsgolf

Pitt Meadows Fire & Rescue stopped by the food bank to deliver two cheques to Manager Clare Devlin which totalled $1525. Presenting the cheques were Firefighters Brent Hannah and Sean de Jersey. Thank you to all the firefighters for their contribution and we look forward to their annual Firefighters for Families in 2021!

GIVING TUESDAY - December 1 https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/5641

PANAGO PIZZA supporting Friends in Need Food Bank. For every pizza the Maple Ridge Panago sells on November 13, 14 & 15, they will donate $1 to the Friends in Need. So enjoy a pizza and support the food bank!

Ridge Meadows Soccer Club collected and donated 2090 lbs of food and $500 to the Friends in Need. Thank you to the members of the organization who participated in supporting the food bank. Pictured below with the may boxes of food are Shauna Williams - Operations Manager and Matt DiNicolo - Board Member.

Following a story on the news last night and today on Global about supermarket hampers being sold are full of clearance items and not good food. That does not happen here in Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows. Our grocers who provide prepacked bags of quality food which contain items on our Most Wanted list work with the food bank. Kevin Marshall of FreshCo is currently selling bags for $10 which have a higher value. It is an easy way to support the Friends in Need with product that we need. Thank you to all of our grocers who take the time to assemble prepacked bags of quality food. And thank you for supporting the food bank.

Are you ready for Giving Tuesday? Consider supporting our School Meal Snack Program. https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/56414

Do you have refundables you would like to donate to the Friends in Need? Why not take them to the Maple Ridge Christian Reformed Church on Saturday, December 12. Check out their poster for details. Click on the following link to Donate Now. https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/m/56694

We have seen lots of donation bins at businesses downtown! Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who is participating! It is much appreciated as many of our spring & summer food drives were cancelled due to COVID.

Thank you to the 588 people who supported the Friends in Need by buying a pizza from Panagos. Owner Rohan Blaggan presented a cheque this past week to Mary Robson. This is the first year for this campaign which Rohan would like to make an annual event. Our volunteers can attest to the fact that Panago pizzas are the best! Thank you to the Panago Team!

#CPHolidayTrain The show will be available to stream via Facebook page facebook.com/canadian.pacific or @CanadianPacific We received a $15,000 donation from CP Rail and we are very thankful that they continue to support food banks across Canada. We are saddened though that there will be no Holiday Train stopping at Port Haney Station in Maple Ridge & Harris Road Crossing in Pitt Meadows. Instead the CP family is putting on a virtual concert. See link below for details, mark your calendar and enjoy the show!

Tyler had a great day on Saturday and his Donate to Celebrate campaign for the Friends in Need raised $1,726! Thank you to everyone who donated to what he says will become his annual birthday campaign. Thank you Tyler! We appreciate your support! And look forward to next year’s birthday. DONATE TO CELEBRATE Tyler from Humble Roots is celebrating his birthday Saturday, October 24. To help him celebrate he is asking his friends to support his campaign to raise $6,800 for... the Friends in Need Food Bank’s School Meal/Snack Program. To donate now on line go to his campaign page https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/t/53357 Or visit him in person at Humble Roots to wish him a Happy Birthday. Happy Birthday Tyler! See more

Knights of Columbus show their support of Friends in Need again! The support the Knights of Columbus provides the food bank gives the volunteers and staff an extra boost during these uncertain times. They know what we do is integral to the health of our community and we thank them for their hard work and care of the communities they serve. (Left to right - Socially Distanced of course are Zane, Evan, Nancy & Scott)

We will miss volunteering at CBC Day this year but will look forward to their show. Tune in December 4 and support the Friends in Need Food Bank.

WALL AGAINST HUNGER This week the Meadowridge Elementary School students built a wall of non perishable foods for the Friends in Need Food Bank. The food drive was organized by the Grade Four students and their teachers. By the time we disassembled it and packed it in boxes for transporting to the food bank, it filled 53 boxes and 11 totes and weighed 2,620 lbs. Amazing what can be accomplished with all the COVID protocols and we are truly thankful for their efforts and commitment to helping those in need. Many of our food drives have been cancelled because of the pandemic. Their spirit is to be commended.

KRAFT HEINZ PANTRY DAY - link to video - https://drive.google.com//1cq0-dEaMNmYKCj7bNqi2TMEm7/view

YENNADON ELEMENTARY & BIG GUNS ROOFING - TOGETHER MORE THAN 3,000 LBS. Now that we have figured out how to do food drives safely, students and staff at Yennado...n collected 2,320 lbs. of non-perishables for the Friends in Need. When one of the parents heard what was happening, they went out and spent $2,000 on non-perishable food to support the food drive. With the donation from Big Guns Roofing, the amount donated to the food bank totaled 3,040 lbs. Thank you to the Yennadon and Big Guns Team! See more

https://www.mapleridgenews.com//maple-ridge-food-bank-get/

Last Saturday the Maple Ridge Lions presented a cheque to the Friends In Need Food Bank in memory of our long time Volunteer & Friend Vivian Anderson who passed away in 2018. Vivian ran the Saturday Meat Draw at Shooter’s Tap House for years on behalf of the Foodbank. The Lions have taken over the Saturday Meat Draw and this year they donated $6,000. The meat draws were suspended when the pandemic hit but they are now back!