The Co-op grocery store in Kamsack began a program last week that is designed to benefit area residents in need.
“We are very pleased to be able to launch the ‘Good Buy to Hunger’ program at our Kamsack Food Store,” Del Ziola, food division manager for Yorkton Co-op, said on Friday.
“In the program we fill paper shopping bags with non-perishable groceries such as crackers, soups, pastas and canned salmon,” Ziola said. “The bags will come in a variety of values typically worth between $10 and $20.
“Customers are able to purchase the bags and can put their names on them if they wish and the good people involved with the New Beginnings outreach centre will distribute the groceries to those in need.”
Ziola said that the Yorkton Co-op grocery store has been running this program for many years and has been able to get thousands of dollars worth of groceries to The Soup Haven in Yorkton.
“Christmas is the season of giving and it’s the time of year by far that we sell the most bags, so this is the absolute perfect time to launch this program.”
Wanda Cote, co-ordinator for the New Beginnings outreach centre in Kamsack, said that the centre has a hot lunch program which attracts between 65 and 70 persons a day. The bags of groceries from the Co-op will be used to help make those lunches.
Several bags of groceries printed with the Co-op’s slogan “Good Buy to Hunger” are currently on display near the store’s checkout counters.
