The North Bay Food Rescue program continues to grow.
This week the program has added Parker’s Independent as its fourth partner joining Freshco, Giant Tiger and Mike and Lori’s No Frills.
Dennis Chippa, Executive Director of the Gathering Place which is facilitating the program, says that will bring their total to close to 1,500 pounds of food rescued on a weekly basis.
“It gives us that much more food to rescue and the whole point with the whole program is it does not just benefit us, it benefits all the other food banks in the city. It benefits all the other meal programs in the city like the Salvation Army and the Open Arms Cafe,” noted Chippa.
“We provide a lot of food for those groups as well as some of the outlying areas. It does not just benefit the Gathering Place, it benefits all the other food banks and food programs in the community and now it is benefiting the rest of the district too.”
Chippa says a recent report by CBC indicates that close to 40 per cent of Canada’s food goes to waste. He believes programs like the North Bay Food Rescue program will help bring those numbers down.
“It is going to be about 1,500 pounds of food a week that would have been thrown in the dumpster and would have gone into the North Bay Landfill site that is now being processed and used,” said Chippa.
