New truck helps expand innovative Nanaimo food bank program
Apr 3, 2018 | 1:18 PM
NANAIMO — Thanks to a new truck, a renowned program from Nanaimo’s Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank can expand.
Loaves and Fishes received $187,000 from Food Bank B.C. and the provincial government to buy a new five-tonne truck.
Food bank executive director Peter Sinclair told NanaimoNewsNOW the truck will join another in their food recovery program, which collects surplus food from local grocery stores.
“We’re hopeful that now with this truck we’ll be able to have more grocery store partners come on so we can recover more food,” Sinclair said.
