CNA hands out free potatoes
42 pallets containing 1200 lbs of potatoes in every had been delivered to Citxw Nlaka’pamux Meeting (CNA) for distribution to the neighborhood. The potatoes are from Second Harvest, the biggest meals rescue charity in Canada.
“Second Harvest reached out to everybody that was curious about distributing these produce out to communities,” mentioned CNA Communications Lead, Robin Peterson. “They reached out to us and requested if we’re curious about doing potato distribution as a result of that they had an overabundance.”
The potatoes had been grown in Prince Edward Island and Second Harvest shipped them out throughout Canada.
“We had been making an attempt to resolve if we’re capable of do one or two truck hundreds to distribute however we figured with all the encircling communities we must always attempt to distribute two,” mentioned Peterson.
On Tuesday, June 28 the supply was obtained by CNA. By Monday, July 4, 23 pallets remained and on Friday, July 8, all the pallets had been fully gone.
“Each neighborhood member that got here to gather on behalf of their neighborhood had been ecstatic to obtain these potatoes,” mentioned Peterson.
“We didn’t have one frown in the entire crowd. This actually goes into the neighborhood connection, which is one thing that we’ve been missing within the final couple of years.”
Transferring the massive quantity of potatoes was no straightforward process and Peterson mentioned CNA was grateful for the help that they had in undertaking this purpose.
“We had our summer time college students available and so they had been important in shifting all of those potatoes. They labored actually onerous and this was their first week on the job so it was actually good first process to do with us,” she joked.
Except for the summer time college students, CNA additionally had outdoors organizations assist out.
“Simply to verify there wasn’t going to be any meals waste, we touched base with Loop Assets and so they had been useful in sending a few farmers our method so we’re capable of get a pair extra potatoes out the door.”
