By Vanessa Ybarra

Fall Rotary food drive brings in close to 50-thousand pounds of food

Sep 10, 2017 | 11:19 AM

KAMLOOPS — The shelves are stocked once again at the Kamloops Food Bank.

49-thousand pounds of food was collected in Saturday’s Fall Rotary Food Drive.

Rotary members, the WolfPack running team, cadets, numerous business groups and dozens of volunteers scoured the city collecting yellow bags off resident’s porches stuffed with non-perishable food items to go towards feeding the city’s low-income residents.

Food Bank Executive Director Bernadette Siracky says this year’s collection was by far the fastest.

“We were literally done unloading vehicles, sorting food, and putting it on the shelf by 2:30 p.m. which is record time,” said Siracky. “It was a pretty spectacular event, the level of comaraderie and support was amazing.”

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The food will carry the food bank through until the end of November.

A Christmas fundraiser will take place shortly after.