The Comox Valley Food Bank will be well stocked for the holiday season and heading into next year.
Jet FM and the Comox Valley Food Bank’s annual Stuff the Truck holiday fundraiser wrapped up Dec. 12, with a week of fundraising efforts leading to 105 pallets, which equals around 105,000 lbs of food donations.
Communications director for the food bank Chris Arruda said the pallet numbers are unofficial and may climb past 110 in the coming days, which amounts to more than $50,000.
“Seeing the outpouring of support is special to us and more importantly we are able to realize a lot of our fundraising goals during the season.”
This year’s event also featured the most amount of food donations since 2019.
Arruda said this fundraiser has made a big impact for the food bank heading into the new year.
“Unfortunately, food insecurity continues to rise in Canada and as a result of that we have to really make these funds stretch longer than ever because as we roll into next year this is going to be something that really helps us moving forward, probably into the first half of next year.”
Both Jet FM and the Comox Valley Food Bank would like to thank everyone who was able to contribute.
