Gray Elementary students, Kiera Hattrick and Brooklyn Brandon, raise money for North Delta Starfish Pack.
Members of Vernon’s RCMP detachment have chipped in to support the local Starfish meal program for hungry kids.
Shiela Guinan, branch manager of the downtown Maple Ridge Westminster Savings location, along with fellow staff members Kim Borthwick and Parita Patel, handed Ineke Boekhorst, with the Meadow Ridge Rotary’s Starfish Pack Program, a cheque for $2,300.
Ending childhood hunger happens one child at a time. For the Starfish Pack Program, it starts with sending one food-stuffed backpack at a time home with hungry kids when school lets out for the weekend.
The Aldergrove and Abbotsford Starfish Pack programs are each $5,000 stronger thanks to a donation from the LiUNA (Laborers’ International Union of North America) local 1611 Construction and Specialized Workers’ Union.
The Roster Sports Club and Grill’s Dish Out the Kindness fundraiser raised $5,000 that will be split between the Upper Room Mission and Kalamalka Starfish Pack Program.
Sixty-four Aldergrove Starfish backpacks went home on Friday, Dec. 4 with the added bonus of early winter wear; a hand-knitted scarves, mittens, or toques fashioned by two dedicated volunteers.
Delta Firefighters donate $5000 to South Delta Starfish through t-shirt fundraiser.
Plants will be available Dec. 7 or later for pick-up and delivery.
The City of Penticton will be proclaiming November as Starfish backpack month, a program that works throughout BC to help kids with food security.