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Raising Quarters for a Great Cause

Friday, 1 May 2015 14:39

A challenge has been issued to every high school in Woodstock to help raise funds for the Food for Friends program.

WOODSTOCK - The challenge has been issued to every high school in Woodstock to help raise funds for the Food for Friends program.
Grade 12 student Megan Ellerby is asking her fellow students to raise quarters for the food sharing program.
She made the announcement at an assembly at her school Woodstock Collegiate Institution on Friday.
Ellerby tells Heart FM why she wanted to get involved with Food for Friends after hearing about the program and how many less fortunate people in our community rely on it.
Food for Friends helps out roughly 250 families in Oxford County every month.
She adds they are also sending out the challenge to all of the High Schools in Woodstock to follow to suit.
The Operation Sharing Food for Friends program started nine years ago in Woodstock.
How it works is people are asked to donate a quarter at some of our local grocery stores in Woodstock, Ingersoll and Embro and the money is put into food cards.
So instead of having to pick from items at a food bank local residents are given a card so they can do the shopping themselves and choose the food they would like to eat.
This is the first time fundraising for the program has come from local schools.
Director of Operation Sharing Stephen Giuliano wanted to extend a heartfelt thank you to Megan and her efforts on behalf of the organization and on behalf of some the less fortunate people in Oxford who rely on the program.

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