Food bank holds Trick or Eat fundraiser

If you’re still a kid at heart and miss the fun of going door to door for candy on Halloween night, it turns out the Interfaith Food Bank is giving you another opportunity, but it’s for a good cause. Danielle McIntyre the group’s executive director says instead of candy, they’re encouraging people to dress up in costume and collect non-perishables for their “Trick or Eat” Halloween Food Drive.

She says you can participate in three different ways.  First, you can register with the food bank and go door-to-door Halloween night collecting items for the food bank, then drop them off that night. Or, you can hold a food drive at your halloween party or haunted house, and thirdly, you can just plain donate financially to the food bank.

McIntyre also says those who come to the food bank in costume on the 31st will go home with a treat bag and will be entered into an online costume contest on Interfaith’s social media pages, where people can vote online for “This or That”. 

The Interfaith Food Bank will be open until 9 p.m. on Halloween night.

Jeannette Rocher

Born in Puerto Rico, raised in Minnesota and Manitoba, Jeannette has had the opportunity to live in a variety of places including New York, Arizona, and Nevada. After completing college and a paid internship with CBC Winnipeg, Jeannette embarked on her journalism career by moving overseas to take a job on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. While overseas she covered stories in Fiji, Guam and Japan including the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan and its surrounding islands. She covered a mass shooting, an Earth quake, murder cases and other substantial court cases. In 2013 she moved to Alberta where she covered the devastating floods of High River and Medicine Hat for CTV News. She then went on to produce and host Go! Southern Alberta for Shaw TV. She now calls Miracle Channel home. In addition to reporting in the field, you can catch her anchoring daily weather reports, as well as longer interview segments on BCN, and the week-in-review show on BCN Weekends. 

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