Record breaking food drive
We have broken our record with the amount of food collected in Tuesday night’s food drive in Ōmokoroa. In December 2020 we collected 171 large boxes of food for the store. This year, we collected 260 boxes - a 65% increase.
The feedback from the Food Bank was that there were a lot of very practical items they don’t usually see much of. They also received a small amount of cash and an offer of frozen meat, which will go a long way to helping out families impacted by Covid 19.
I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you and Merry Christmas to our very generous community. You have outdone yourselves again.
If you were out or missed the collection, please drop anything you have down to the Church on Hamurana Road. If you are unable to get out, contact me and I’ll collect it from you.
Now that the food drive is over, I can start concentrating on the community garage sale and car boot. I am looking at doing it around the end of February / beginning of March 2022 so we can make use of the good weather. If you can plan that far ahead, let me know if you’d like to participate.
The car boot will be at Freshchoice and the garage sale will be at your house. You keep all the profits from the sales, it’s just $10 to join in. As usual I’ll advertise it on FB from Thames to Whakatāne and down to Hamilton. Obviously, it will all be down to what traffic light setting we’ll be at.
If you can’t wait until then, I have plenty of garage sale signs I can lend you if you want to have a post Christmas clear out. Cyberlink can even advertise it for free for you. Again, just email rick.peers@gmail.com