Food Bank thanks local restaurant for canned soup donation
The Moose Jaw and District Food Bank received a well-needed stock to its shelves after Rock Creek Tap & Grill donated over 1,200 cans of soup to the organization on Wednesday, June 6th. Rock Creek donated the soups following a donation workplace challenge among servers to sell the most soup. For every soup that was sold, one can of soup is then donated to the Food Bank.
One server, Jackie Gadd, was the champion server after she sold 266 soups to win the challenge. She said it was a fun way to do something good to give back to the community.
“It was fun to do this with our customers for a great cause. It is something I look forward to doing again.”
Owners of Rock Creek Tap & Grill, Jeff and Ashlea Street, said this is the second year that the restaurant has opted to do this challenge. They say it was a wonderful way to support local charities that benefit the community as a whole. “We started this challenge last year that Rock Creek decided to do because we want to support the local Food Bank. This seemed like a great idea to do where for every bowl of soup that was sold for the months of January and February this year, we donate a can to the Food Bank. It was a challenge where anyone who had a bowl of soup could challenge someone else to get a bowl of soup that day, so we could increase the number of cans to donate to the Food Bank,” said Ashlea. “We want to continue to do this annually. It is also a competition with other Rock Creeks as well and it gets our staff involved and more engaged with our customers.”
Deanne Little, assistant manager at the Food Bank, welcomed the donation and expressed thanks to Rock Creek Tap & Grill.
“We’re excited to be getting such a large donation at this time of the year. Our donations tend to go down over the summer months, into fall, and so to get a donation like this is really great to keep our stock going. Our numbers have gone up again this year; we hand out approximately 366 hampers per month, helping about 900 people monthly. A lot of people depend on our service to keep food on their tables so a donation like this is greatly ap- preciated here,” said Little. Meanwhile, you can continue to donate to the Food Bank as it enters its lean season. Little says the Food Bank welcomes donations, whether it is monetarily or otherwise.
“The other thing we’re very short on right now is canned fruits and canned vegetables. We do take fresh fruit and produce as well. We will take all the donations we can get. This community is the driving force of our Food Bank and we’re are grateful for its continued generosity,” added Little.
You can also donate to the Food Bank at the upcoming hometown parade. “For the second year, we will be in the hometown parade on Thursday, June 21. We will be collecting food donations along the route similar to last year and raising monetary funds.”
So far, the Food Bank has assisted over 3,000 people since the start of the year. The Moose Jaw and District Food Bank is located at 305 Fairford St. W. (entrance located at 3rd Avenue NW). For more information, you can contact them at http:// mjfoodbank.org; email endhunger@mjfoodbank.org or you can also call (306) 692-2911. It is open Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.