Halloween Food Drive To Continue Despite Pandemic
By Ronnie Kayla Neiman
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Despite what is going on, the annual Halloween food drive is continuing. It is an event that partners The Assiniboine Community College Students’ Association (ACCSA) and the Brandon University Students’ Union (BUSU) with the Samaritan House Ministries to drive through the streets of Brandon to trick or treat for various items of food for the food bank.
Students of both post-secondary institutes in Brandon, along with many other community
Volunteers will be heading out on Saturday, October 31st between 5:00pm and 9:00pm to collect non-perishable food items and donations are to be used by both the Samaritan House Food Bank, and the BUSU Food Bank.
The safety of the volunteers and of those who choose to donate food is of very high concern to all involved. Many efforts have been put in place to ensure proper social distancing is attainable, while also allowing the ease of Brandon citizens to provide non-perishable food item donations from the comfort of their front step. Halloween Food Drive stickers will be distributed in the Thursday, October 29th edition of the Brandon Sun. These can be peeled and affixed to a bag or box and left out on front steps for a Halloween Food Drive Volunteer to collect during the Halloween Food Drive.
For households that will not be participating in Halloween Trick-or-Treating, or feel unsafe having volunteers come to their door but still wish to donate, donations of food items & cash donations may be dropped off directly at the Samaritan House Food Bank at 820 Pacific Ave, Brandon, MB.
Keeping in mind the chaos and unpredictability of recent times, the Halloween Food Drive organizers may be required to cancel this event on short notice based on directions from Public Health Orders in Brandon. For the most updated information, please visit busu.ca or accstudents.com. For more information, media inquiries, or to sign up for volunteering, please contact: Matthew May, ACCSA Director at 204 725 8700 ext. 7213 or maym2@assiniboine.net for ACC or Ashley Taron, BUSU General Manager at 204 727 9682 or gm@busu.ca.