Town reiterates plans to work with food bank

Council Highlights

 

Town administration met with volunteers of the Food Bank on Sept. 18, with regard to the transition of FCSS to a Municipal Department. The town and the food bank discussed how we will continue to work together to ensure that the transition will not cause a negative impact to the clients using this critical service. Members of the food bank will work with the town to ensure that we are well aware of the administrative services that WFCSS currently provides.   

The Food Bank extended an invitation to administration to visit the food bank site, and on the morning of Sept. 19, administration visited the site to get a feel for their operations. The food bank is located in two bays of a warehouse structure, consisting of approximately 2,000 sq ft. 

Administration’s first impressions upon entering the building were how clean and organized the facility is, and the wonderful atmosphere generated by these amazing volunteers. They operate like a well-oiled machine, and the sense of camaraderie and hospitality was incredible. It was very apparent that these wonderful, caring people truly enjoy spending time with each other, and are very passionate about this critical service that they provide to those in need. We were impressed and amazed at how much attention to detail and organization is required to run this service, and again, this is all done by volunteers!

It would be impossible to describe everything that we observed during our visit, and as such, the volunteers of the food bank society have very graciously extended an invitation to council to visit their site to see their operations first-hand. Administration highly recommends that council take advantage of this invitation; guaranteed they will be impressed, and they will meet some really amazing, caring people!