This food shortage will be costly in terms of nutrition and finances. We are seeing this rising cost now.
Our thoughts go to our northern neighbors and the challenges they may face already struggling communities do not have access to food or water and we are concerned these struggles will invariably will worsen. We want to help. We are going to help.
Even though our monies may be minimal in amount we are willing to share with those who are facing hardship. Slabwood is reaching out today to the readership and asking that you keep in your hearts and minds the little ones, the elderly, the women who cant make supper for the family because there simply isn't any food. It is startling to imagine here in Canada a Food Shortage but the statistics tell us this is the case for most Indigenous children on reserves. The contamination of water and soil prevents many communities from planting or hunting or fishing leaving these peoples to rely on subsides and that has shown to be a intergovernmental problem. The high cost of delivering food water and fuel prevents storing up, No, finances to do that. Keeping food banks and food services shelves with the daily requirements is barely possible, predicting weather and contamination issues impossible to forecast.
Slabwood is providing you links to help you contribute what you can to lessen the fear alievate some worries and feed our struggling First Nations People. We deeply appreciate your generous acts of kindness. We thank you for your prayers, lifting up the desperate need for food.
North Bay Food Bank
1016 Fisher Street
North Bay, ON
Phone: (705) 495-3290
Hours of Operation: Monday and Friday; 9:00am-2:00pm; Wednesday, 4:00pm –
7:00pm.
Redeemer Lutheran Church
2nd Avenue East and Ferguson
Phone: (705) 472-9169
Hours of Operation: Tuesdays, 9:30am; first come, first serve basis. You may pick up every week.
St. Brice’s Anglican Church
1225 Cassells Street
Phone: (705) 474-4005
Hours of Operation: Thursdays; 9:00am to 11:00am. You may pick up every week. Also available through St. Brice’s High School Lunch Program which runs on Friday’s; 11:30am-1:00pm.
Catholic Charities
480 McIntyre Street West
Phone: (705) 472-3970
Hours of Operation:Tuesdays, 9:00am-12-00pm
St. Vincent de Paul
280 Fifth Ave East
Phone: (705) 497-9784
Hours of Operation: Thursday, 12:00pm to 1:30pm
*Fresh fruit and vegetables are available every week*
*Closed July and August*
Gospel Fellowship Café; Salvation Army.
134 McIntyre Street East
Phone: (705) 474-7859
*Dinner is served every Sunday at 6pm, except the first Sunday of the month*
Trinity United Church
111 McIntyre Street East
Phone: (705) 474-3310
Hours of Operation: 9:30-11:00.
You may pick up once a month.
St. Peter’s Roman Catholic
299 Airport Road
Phone: (705) 472-1817 *Tuesdays, 9:00am phone requests, first 8 callers only (no messages). Delivered west of O’Brien Street and North of High St.*
St. John’s Anglican
301 Main Street East
Phone: (705) 472-6070
Hours of Operation: Wednesday, 9am-10:00am *Can choose 6 items every week*
St. Andrew’s United
399 Cassells Street
Phone: (705) 472-7680
Hours of Operation: Thursday, 8:30am-10:30am *Every two weeks, can choose 5 items*
Corpus Christi Church
1781 Cassells St
Phone: (705) 472-2127
Hours of Operation: 1:00pm-3:00pm Phone requests only on Fridays, must live east of O’Brien Delivered on Tuesday; once a month.
Infant Food Cupboard of Nipissing
Ontario Early Years Centre
171 Chippewa Street West
Phone: (705) 474-8910 ext. 65
Hours of Operation: *Call before noon Tuesday to inquire; program runs 1-4pm.
Student Food Bank
Nipissing University and Canadore College Student Union Office
Phone: (705) 474-7600 ext 5547
Hours of Operation: Open Monday-Friday; 9am-6pm.
Bonfield & Rutherglen Food Bank
Bonfield Church
408 Gagnon
Phone: (705) 776-1091
Hours of Operation: Open every second and third Monday, 6-8pm.
Callander and District Food Bank
78 Lansdowne St
Phone: (705) 752-4819
Hours of Operation: Open Tuesday, 3-6pm.
Garden Village
Nipissing First Nation Food Bank
316 Ted Commanda Drive
Phone: (705)753-6972
Hours of Operation: Open Monday, 1-4:30pm, Friday, 8:30-12pm.
Mattawa Food Bank
450 Hurdman Street
Phone: (705) 744-6706
Hours of Operation: Open every second Wednesday; 11am-2pm
West Nipissing Food Bank; Sturgeon Falls
45 John Street
Phone: (705) 753-0314
Hours of Operation: Open third Wednesday of each month; 1-3pm.