Look Who's Helping Feed Our Neighbours!

Volume 18 • Issue 1 • JANUARY 2020

KLTW Home and Christmas Craft Show Look who’s Kawartha Lakes This Week held helping feed their annual show and invited us to receive donations instead of our neighbours! asking an entrance fee! Over the weekend, 4,082 lbs. of non- Monthly Donations: perishables and nearly $4,000 Trevor and Shannon Kuypers, Verna Curtin, George and Anne were collected! Thanks also to Lindsay-Peterborough Davies, Doug Watson, Larry Wilson, Jacey Culham, Linda Coles Movers who allowed us the use of a storage container for Yvonne Kehoe, Lisa Fedele and Michael Cummings, Joan E. the weekend at no charge! Shippel, Barbara Truax, Caleb Stillwell, Alexandra Fulton, Charlie and Ina Currie, Catherine Philip, Rose Barg, Barbie Corp, David and Sheila Smith, Mary Auld, Saint Vincent de Paul Society, Marg Community Care Adult Wansbrough, Peter Luskin, Kelsey Gibson Day Programs Together the staff and clients Online Monthly Donations: of Community Care raised over Donna S. Thompson, Barbara Glass, Jeremy Kraemer, Anonymous, 150 lbs. of non-perishable food, Deborah Smith, Bruce Couling, Brian Rump, Nanci Byer socks, hygiene products, all of Online Donations: which was much appreciated by Shaun Brown, Elizabeth Hicks, Dan Piggott, Badria Mohd Amin, our member food banks leading Darwin Germyn, Suzanne Christie, Mairi Bew, Ashley Collins, up to Christmas! THANK YOU!!! Martha Pendlebury, Jim Melchin, Diane Smith, Tom Molica Lazzaro, Cathy Barrowclough, Paul Jantzi, Tim Jenkins, Nora and FoodResuce.ca Update! Paul Steffler, Charles Currie, David Kennedy, Lorne Bagshaw, In the first 6 months of the Shawn Morgan, Kawartha Wireless, Wesley Lane, Peter Anderson, initiative, there has been 11,841 Anonymous, Julie Mather, Jana Walden, Jane and Ed Lowe, lbs. of food donated back into Shannon Kuypers, Amber Langmuir, Mary Ellen Wood our community, including a donation from Wholesale Food Donors: Club Lindsay of 100 lbs. of Womens Resources, Owen and Kerrie Lund, KLTW Christmas and Home Show, Wendy Evans, IE Weldon, St. Thomas Aquinas, fresh lettuce. The food donations have kept 34,659 kg. of Rolling Hills PS, Leslie Frost PS, St. Dominic Catholic Elementary, Greenhouse Gases from being emitted into our atmosphere! Central Senior WE Team, Parkview PS, Adelaide Place Retirement Community, Carolyn Parkes, Loretta Gingrich, Sandra MacArthur Schools Who Care Queen St United Church, Guy Mills Appartments, Jessica Lee, Farmers Butcher Shop, Tracey Schindler, Kawartha Dairy Ltd., In early November, Bikers Rights Org CKL Region 23, Lindsay Volunteer Firefighter donations from caring Association, Lindsay Quilt Guild, Pauline Sinclair, Craig Fitzgerald, schools began to flood June Pick, Kawartha Lakes Fire Department, Bob and Rhonda in from food drives Ansell, Val Birtzu, St Andrews Congregation, Foster McLaughlin, Peter Luskin, Bakertilly KDN, Human Services 68 Lindsay St., held during the fall season. A HUGE thanks to St. Thomas Lindsay Seniors Art Club, Lindsay Boys and Girls Club, Helix Aquinas, I.E. Weldon, Rolling Hills, Leslie Frost, Parkview, St. Hearing Care, Flex Fitness, Dwayne James, Anonymous, Dominics and Central Senior students and staff!

Box 123, Lindsay, ON K9V 4R8 • Telephone: 705-324-0707 • Email: [email protected] www.kawarthalakesfoodsource.com /KawarthaLakesFoodSource /KawarthaLakesFoodSource Kawartha Lakes Food Source • The Source • JANUARY 2020

Look who’s helping feed our neighbours!

Food Donors (cont’d.): St Pauls Church, Art Fields, Lindsay Fire Department, John Trail, Doug Walden, Rachel Northey, Caressant Care McLaughlin Road, Victoria Haliburton Law Association, Caressant Care Adult Day Programs, Annie Cheng and Kawartha Art Gallery, Lindsay Adelaide Place Continued Support Lightningbolts Swim Club, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, After years of support, Adelaide Place Retirement Food+Rural Affairs, Seamus and Bridget Gallagher, Kawartha Community once again supported us with 50 delicious pies Lakes Toastmasters, Cathie and Clarke Tummon, Becky Shechey for a Pie Auction. With Shelley from Corneil Auctions leading (Sweat Happy Wellness), 55 Angeline St. N Walk-In Clinic the bidding activity, a $815 donation and 159lbs. of non- Carbon Heights Crossfit Fitness, Steve O’Leary, Jack Radecki, perishable food were donated. THANK YOU! Kin Club of Canada, Bryan and Marissa Greig, Mary Ellen Woolridge, Russell West Optometry, Maurices, Margot Innes, Gerdau Metals, Recycling, Weight Watchers Lindsay, Fit Body Lindsay Volunteer Boot Camp, Lash Kawartha Lakes, CECC Records Department, Firefighter The Grand, Kawartha Lakes Cannabis Online, Medical Secretaries Association Association, Barn and Bunkie Christmas Show, Kawartha These courageous Conservation, Boiling Over’s Coffee Vault, River Rose Cleaning volunteers put on a Service, Kawartha Lakes Honda, Central East LHIN, Lindsay Fill the Fire Truck food Muskies (Muskie Day!), Village Housing Apartments, 53 Adelaide collection at Loblaws in Apartments, Ross Memorial Hospital, Cambridge United Church, Lindsay, raising 551 lbs. Fairview Baptist Church, Nesbitt’s Meat Market, HKPR Health of food and $181.35 in Unit, Bethel Church, Sir Sandford Fleming College, Hobart’s cash donations. Thank Steakhouse, Cambridge Baptist Church you for all you do! Cash Donations: Pat Dunn, Owen and Kerrie Lund, Gaye Trider, Brenda and William Moynes, Dorothy Denure, Chase Masonry and General Contracting, George Piggott, Adelaide Place Retirement Community, CUPE Local 855, Enterprise FillYourTank Grant, Tom and June Pick, Scottish Rite Club of Victoria District, Dalrymple Church, Rohan Wijesinghhe, Ron and Sandi Warrilow, Robert Wheeler, Donna Banks, Janice Koch, James and Bonnie Hancock John and Elaine Murray, Craig and Mary Fitsell, Catherine and James Millington, Ken and Irene Perrier, Rob Gardner, Unifor Local 222 Union Hall, Dalrymple United Church Women, Jacques Jolly Jog Lindsay 2019! Synnett Trust, Fran Dominic, Ken Koski, Allan and Marion Imrie, Peter Newman, Cambridge United Church Hannah Unit, This was the 10th Annual running of the Jolly Jog Lindsay, Bikers Rights Org CKL Region 23, Lindsay Volunteer Firefighters and we are happy to say it was a success! We raised nearly Association, Edward and Mary Hill, Anne Rodd, Susan Hall, Ray $2,500 to be split between KLFS and A Place Called Home, and Barb Bain, Brian and Pat Henderson, Sandy Flynn, Joyce all while doing it in the most festive way possible! Dunning, Steve and Jo-Ellen Abercrombie, Susan Kennedy, Patricia Lovsin, Cheryl Saunders, Pat and Mary Keenan, Bob and A HUGE THANKS to our sponsors and attendees for making Sheila Larson, Wayne Moss, Jane and Ian MacIntosh, it a truly special and heartwarming event. See you next year, Jolly Joggers!

Christmas Food Drive Look who’s Our lovely volunteers, donors and supporter were out in helping feed full force for our Christmas Drive! At our locations in our neighbours! Loblaws, Reid’s Valu-Mart, and Wholesale Club, we managed to raise nearly 2,500lbs. Cash Donations (cont’d.): of food for and over $1,700 that can be put towards fresh Philip and, Janis Niblett, Ivan and Elaine Nancekievill, Kathy items like milk, eggs and fruit. THANK YOU! Simpson, Hector and Aileen Naylor, Neil Hanes, Susanne Dowdell, AdSkope Digital Advertising, David and Pauline Brien, Betty Kellistine, Clare and Sheila Robins, Janet Armstrong, Central East LHIN Richard and Darlene Poisson, Mary Jane Beatty, Lindsay Donators! Christian Reformed Church, Milton Battersby, Ross Bilton, We are lucky to have Omemee Veternary Hospital, Clark Jewell, Barbara Hanes, community partners who Leon DesRochers, Earl Manley, Dr. and Mrs. Robert and Elena care intensely about our Drury, John and Joan Ross, Ross Brown, Ray and Barb Bain, mission. One such partner Rosepark Landscaping Ltd., Rick Hayward, Debbie Hansen Bull, is Central East LHIN, whose Staples & Swain, Heather Richardson, Cow and Sow Eatery, office collected nearly 100lbs. of non-perishables. Thank Ross Chambers, Bakertilly KDN, Human Services 68 Lindsay St., you to Kim, Deb and all the donors! Kawartha Conservation, Medical Secretaries Christmas Party, Calvary Pentecostal Church Congregation, Village Housing, Lindsay Seniors Art Club, Community Living Trent Highlands, KID DONORS! Nancy Newton, Powles Corners Womens’ Institute, Anne Rodd, Chris and Jennifer Mabee, Gordon and Nicole Sloan, Deborah and Glenn Moyer, Hyla Gould, Deeno and Charlene Pearsell, Brent and Katherine Shaw, Ione Hartford, Richard and Barbara Evans, Floortrends Ltd., Ronald and Kathy Firth, Muriel Burnett, Craig and Leslie Dyment, Pooran and Cecilia Manmohansingh, Katherine Reddick, June Marsh, Frank and Charlene McColl, Mr and Mrs Garnet Powell, Brian and Ellen Desbiens, Marlene Rachel Bridget Hamilton, Brenda McLean, Mary James, Susan Brooks, Rose For her birthday, Rachel Bridget wanted to make sure Sloan, Victoria Hargrave, Eric Zoebelein, Max and Patricia Radiff, asked all of her friends for that the kids who didn’t have Unifor Local 222 Retired Workers Chapter, Home Hardware donations to the food bank enough food this Christmas Building Centre, John Stinson/Bonnie Kennedy, Vivan Heaton, instead of presents. She had enough! She and her Naomi A. Ecob, Double ‘M’ R.V. Resort & Campground, Drew managed to collect 107 lbs. mom came in on Christmas and Ann Gunsolus, Karen Coe, Jo Alberti, George Piggott, Paul of non-perishable food. We Eve to donate and brighten and Sharon Heath, CUPE Local 1167, Golloro Construction, are so grateful! our day. Thanks for putting Jean Collier, James and Janice Geddes, Yvonne Manion, Terry us in the Christmas spirit! Lynn Fraser, Laurie Masters, Marc Boileau, Tom Jilesen, Stewart Stainton, Linda Fitzgerald, Jay Krishnan, Catherine Morrison, Terrance and Debra Oliver, Nama Tummon, Rev. Michael Locke George Lunan Randy Bezanson, Kim Devolin, Eileen MacMillan, Marg Foundation Wansbrough, Deb Benson, Commonwell Mutual Insurance This Foundation has been a Group, Crayola Lindsay, Margaret Hiscoke, Sharon Phelps, supporter since 2006! With Claire E. Fisk, Ivan and Karen Goodhand, Michael and Catherine their generous donation Puffer, Kenneth and Arlene Oakes, Bianka and Bridget Watson, of $3,000, we are able to Dorothy Edwards, Patrick and Gwyneth Jay, Keith and Pat Jack, continue purchasing milk cartons and fruit for our 21 Mr. and Mrs. Derek Warren member School Nutrition Programs. These children are now able to grow and learn without hunger on their minds.

Community Members’ Christmas Events! FOOD SOURCE MEMBER AGENCIES: To all the offices, friend groups and companies, we can’t Coboconk Food Bank thank you enough for running donation drives this Holiday Dunsford Food Bank Season. Your support truly meant so much to us, thank you! Fenelon Falls Salvation Army HKPR Health Unit K L Centre of Hope Kinmount & Area Food Bank Lindsay Community Food Market Little Britain Food Bank Omemee Food Bank Women’s Resources Woodville Eldon Food Bank 21 School Breakfast /Snack Programs

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Tim Horton’s Donations! During Smile Cookie Week in September, we were the lucky recipient of half of the sales profit. We were astounded to receive over $10,000 from the 2019 run! On top of that, our local Tim’s owners wanted to up the ante, and donated another $5,000 to KLFS. Words cannot express how grateful we are to each of you!

Russell West Optometry Support! This year, Russell West Optometry not only approached us to run a food drive, but also to sponsor the 2019 Lindsay Jolly Jog! They collected 229lbs. of A HUGE thank you food and pledged $1,000 to our volunteers who sort, pick up donations, in support of KLFS and A drop off supplies, plan events, organize food drives, tend to the gardens and so much more!

Box 123, Lindsay, ON K9V 4R8 • Telephone: 705-324-0707 • Email: [email protected] www.kawarthalakesfoodsource.com /KawarthaLakesFoodSource /KawarthaLakesFoodSource