On Friday staff from YTG Environment came to the Food Bank and volunteered on some projects to help the Whitehorse Food Bank. The projects included building a trolley, changing a toilet and sorting food. What sort of fun could a group from your workplace have? Lots! Just look at the smiles of just some of the 15 people that helped us that day.
Big thanks to Golden Horn Elementary School. As a Christmas food drive they brought us over a thousand pounds of food. They also raised almost $500.00 cash selling their artwork as Holiday cards. Also a big shout out to PR Services for printing their cards so they could sell them to benefit the Whitehorse Food Bank.
On October 17 & 18 the Blues Festival will kick off at the Yukon Convention Center and Coast High Country Inn. With the help of Yukon Brewing they will be raising funds and food for the Whitehorse Food Bank. If you bring non-perishable food to the event you will be entered in to a draw for some terrific prizes. So get your roots and blues on and help support the Whitehorse Food Bank. Thanks to the event sponsors, Air North-…
On Thursday and Friday May 8 & 9 students from Vanier, FH Collins, Porter Creek Secondary, Whitehorse Elementary and École Émilie-Tremblay greeted residents on Main Street. They offered and Apple as “food for thought” to raise awareness of hunger issues we are facing here in Yukon. They also gave people an information sheet about how they can help be part of the solution.
WHITEHORSE – Chili Cook-off 11:00am-1:00pm Saturday, February 22, 2014 MacBride Museum Ryan Leef, Member of Parliament for the Yukon and the Whitehorse Food Bank are hosting a Chili Cook-Off for the Whitehorse Food Bank organized by Ryan Leef (MP). Celebrity chefs will be cooking their favourite chili recipes for the public. $20 at the door or $10 plus 1 or more Non-Perishable Food Items. We are proud member of an official rendezvous event. – all to raise funds for the…
This Wednesday October 9th will be a hub of activity At the Whitehorse Food Bank. Volunteers from all the schools in Whitehorse will be collecting groceries door to door the evening of October 9th from 6 pm to 8 pm. This is an extremely important Food Drive for us. This year we are hoping that it will bring us enough food to get us through December. More youth then ever before are getting involved. We are hoping the students will…
On Saturday, January 19, our Yukon Member of Parliament – Ryan Leef hosted the first annual Chili Cook-Off to raise money for the Food Bank. Along with Ryan, there were a number of celebrity chefs including: Josh from Earls Whitehorse; Dr. Karen Barnes – President of Yukon College; Hon. David Laxton – Speaker of the Yukon Legislative Assembly; Paul Flaherty – CEO & President of NorthwesTel; Hon. Elaine Taylor – Deputy Premier and Minister of Community Services; Ted Staffen – former Speaker…
The Yukon Brewing annual fundraising event for the Food Bank brought hundreds of people to their 15 year birthday celebration and raised over $4,200 along with over 20 crates of food. Many thanks to Bob, Jasmine and all the folks who helped out.
The Whitehorse Baptist Church’s “Stuff the Bus” was again very successful this year. On September 22, volunteers received donations of food from the shoppers outside of Superstore and filled the bus to the ceiling. Thanks so much to all the folks who helped out!!
On October 3, students, teachers, parents and citizens helped deliver hundreds of bags of groceries during the annual food drive formerly put on by the city’s Catholic schools. This year, other schools were invited to participate, and the result was wonderful. The Whitehorse Food Bank shelves are full!! Many thanks to Mark Connell and his organizing team. Here are a few pictures of the day. Thanks to Vince Fedoroff for allowing us to use the photos.