I just came from the St. Albert Food Bank – after seeing your article in a recent newspaper, along with a list of needed goods, I dropped off three bags of groceries and showed my five-year-old granddaughter what a food bank means.
Shockingly, they are very low on supplies! Even with that article, all the drop-offs, the food drives, the donation boxes, etc. they are alarmingly low in food. The need is so much greater than most of us realize and not enough of us are taking out the time to give ... if you don't want to shop, give them cash. We are one of the most affluent cities in Canada, and we are not responding to a basic need of people, which is food!
Perhaps another article, this time on the front page, will bring the needed response. There has been much talk lately about politics ... I believe hungry children in our community are more important.
Tilda Campbell, St. Albert
