Erin Katerynych, executive director of the local Food Bank, received a cheque from Nissar Khan, TD Canada Trust North Battleford branch manager, on behalf of the TD Canada Trust Region. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW staff)

By Angela Brown

Community support

Food Bank receives TD Canada Trust donation; ‘Share the Warmth’ starting

Nov 2, 2021 | 2:56 PM

The Battlefords Food Bank is seeing more community support.

TD Canada Trust Region recently made a gift of $1,000 to the local Food Bank, one of four charities here in the Battlefords to receive a donation.

The support will be used to purchase more food items for the Food Bank.

“It’s fantastic,” Erin Katerynych, executive director of the Battlefords District Food & Resource Centre, said. “We’re really starting to pick up here. We’re getting busier all the time, and with Christmas coming, we can use the money towards our programs.”

She said the Food Bank doesn’t have any core funding so the organization appreciates it whenever local businesses and people step forward to help.

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“We try and support local businesses and they support us,” she said.

For those interested in making a donation to the Food Bank, Katerynych said, some of the items in need currently are baby formula, pablum, peanut butter, jelly spread, honey, as well as macaroni and cheese dinner, canned chicken and ham, and canned meals such as ravioli, Sidekicks noodles, soups and similar type products.

“Share the Warmth” and “Coats for Kids”

The “Share the Warmth” and “Coats for Kids” programs are starting again as the weather is getting colder. Both are operated out of the local Food Bank in North Battleford for families in need.

Katerynych is asking people who can donate their gently-used adult’s, children’s and youths’ winter coats, mitts, toques, scarves, boots and snow pants.

Adult items for the “Share the Warmth” program are especially in need now.

“We have a lot for little toddlers’ [items], but not much when it comes to adults,” she said. “So we have been giving out toques and mittens, but no jackets yet.”

When people access the Food Bank they will be able to receive a winter coat if they need one at the same time.

“We don’t want to leave anybody out in the cold,” Katerynych said.

For the “Coats for Kids” program Katerynych said the Food Bank partners with BGC Battlefords (the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Battlefords) and various local schools when they are aware of some kids in the schools who don’t have winter jackets.

“They’ll come and grab coats from us,” Katerynych said. “We hand them out through there.”

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