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January 2009

Our sincere thanks to the Richmond Food Bank’s dedicated volunteers and staff for their hard work through the Christmas Season. Many worked for long days, through weekdays and weekends, often in bad weather and on treacherous roads and pavements, lifting boxes, shoveling snow, chopping wood, and counting coins - using forklifts, hand-trucks, strong backs, kind hearts and tough skins to receive and sort donations while at the same time serving people who need our help.

Thank you also for building and maintaining good public relations with donors, volunteers, and people calling for information and asking for food. Your skillful and responsive communications with visitors, groups, and the press, in person and by telephone, letters, emails, and on our website keep the Richmond Food Bank open and in operation.

Richmond Food Bank Society’s Staff and Directors

We have over 120 regular volunteers, and many more over Christmas and for special events. Our regular service volunteers and board members volunteer about 18,000 hours in a year with Christmas volunteers adding about 500 extra hours. This allows us to distribute about 1,000,000 pounds of food in a year.

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Mark Ash Given Courage to Come Back Award

Our own Mark Ash is the recipient of the Courage to Come Back Award 2010 in the Physical Rehabilitation category. You’ll know Mark as a volunteer here at the foodbank and also for providing the music for our volunteer parties.

Mark's career as a professional musician ended in 2001 when the vehicle he was riding in was rear-ended by a truck and he suffered a serious brain injury.

Please see the following articles: News1130 The Province Coast Mental Health

Slips & Falls Presentation

Volunteers gathered for a Slips and Falls talk by Vancouver Coastal Health's Rishma Dhalla, OT and Joyce Henry, RN. It was a very informative presentation. Thank-you Joyce and Rishma and VCH.

Spring Volunteer Party - Legends Pub, March 2010

Over 70 volunteers and friends enjoyed the band, each other's company and Legend's hospitality at our Spring Volunteer Party. Thanks everyone for your continued dedication to the Food Bank.

Richmond Food Bank Society Directors - 2010-2011

Richmond Foodbank Annual Report for 2009 - 2010

Ernie and June once again hosted our summer Volunteer BBQ on their beautiful grounds. Our thanks go to the Lions Club of Tsawwassen for the food preparation and to Arlene, Kevin and James for the excellent music.

There was a great turn-out for our Steveston Salmon Festival entry despite the cool weather. Thanks Johanna for hosting the after-party. A great time was had by all.

Those We Remember

Please click on picture for the gallery of photos that help us remember friends who can no longer volunteer with us because of poor health, or because they have moved away or moved onwards.

Also please consider volunteering for other community projects that support each other:

• Richmond Fruit Tree Sharing Project
• The St Alban's Community Meal on Tuesdays
• The Gilmore Park Community Meal on Thursdays