Food Bank 

Submitted by Ken Robinson
CPC Halifax 
   

After having several conversations within our club about doing more community service activities (outside of our regular charities), that Halifax Progress Club established an in-house community service committee.

One of the first organizations the committee contacted was the Halifax Metro Food Bank. The committee asked the food bank whether they could use any volunteer help from the Halifax club members.  On October 26th, a lady at the food bank informed the committee that they needed 8 men the next day to help unload two very large truckloads of food.  The food on the trucks consisted on canned goods, and was required for the 2004 Food Bank “Canstruction” program.  This program involves a competition between different companies to build structures out of canned food.  The teams provide all their own cans for the competition, and many of the structures are very elaborate and involve a great deal of planning to ensure that they look correct and do not fall down.  At the end of the competition, the structures are judged and awards are presented to the winning teams.  But the best part of the competition is that all the cans used to build the structures are subsequently donated to the Metro Food Bank.

On very short notice and true to form, the Halifax Progress Club provided 8 guys to unload the food trucks.  In fact, our guys were so eager, they unloaded the trucks in record time.  In addition, even though our club did not directly participate in the actual “Canstruction” building competition, one of our club members did enter a corporate team. In fact, the Canadian Flag structure built by John Day’s Atlantic Digital Reproductions team took first prize as the Jurors’ favourite.

Thanks, guys, for a job well done—that’s what Progress is all about.