The Lanark County Food Bank is working on its 14th annual Christmas Stocking Drive.
Last year long-time volunteer co-ordinator Sandy Schappert passed on the torch and in her honour, and to thank her and her husband for dreaming up this wonderful program, the campaign has been re-named the Sandy Claus Stocking Drive.
The Schapperts’ are the spirit behind the campaign, an idea that began when her late husband Hank remarked while volunteering at the Food Bank that recipients often said, “this is the only gift I get to open Christmas morning.”
Because clients only access the Food Bank once a month, stockings start being handed out in the middle of November.
You can donate a stocking filled with toiletries and small gifts. Just mark them his or hers and drop them at the food bank, 84 Mill Street in Carleton Place, or contact Kelly Betts at kelbetts@gmail.com.
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