Manna’s Clients have once again benefitted from the efforts of Jennifer and Sarah, the Volunteer Co-ordinators of the Muskoka Chapter of the Shoebox Project. Through the generosity of our Community lovely gift boxes were filled with items to delight women who may not have been receiving something under the tree. They were beautifully packaged and …
The Town of Bracebridge organized an in-house food drive to benefit Manna. It was a friendly competition between departments which resulted in a truckload of food being collected. Well done!The smiling Crew dropped off the donations to the food bank just before the Holidays. Thank you all!
Staff Sergeant Mark Allison (Acting) and two of his Constables deliver the bounty of food collected from a food drive throughout the Detachment in December. Kudos to Constable Singh for the initiative to collect food for those in need. Thanks to all of the Members for all they do on a day to day basis!
Jake of Tamarack North returns with a truckload of the non-perishable food items spontaneously brought to their Holiday Event (scaled down due to the pandemic) by their caring Team members.Their Holiday Spirit included thoughts of those in their Community needing a hand-up. Thank you all for your kindness, once again.
The extremely hard working Manna Food Collection Team – aptly named the Manna Master Movers – has been keeping the Muskoka Chrysler sponsored van on the road doing pick ups of groceries from our local supermarkets.Prior to the pandemic the huge amounts of food distributed by Manna had been collected by the Community Work Crew …
Metroland Media initiated a teddy bear program encouraging their advertisers to sponsor teddy bears to be delivered to local children.It was very well supported with many, many bears being collected.Manna Volunteer Ed is shown here with an armload of the teddies brought to Manna. They were included in the grocery boxes of families with children …
Staff from Muskoka Timber Mills gave of their Saturday to do a ‘fill the truck with food event’ outside of Gagnon’s Independent Grocery on December 11.The friendly competition amongst themselves paid off as the donations of food and dollars from our amazing Community were plentiful.Thanks to them for their time, enthusiasm and awareness of the …
The Players of the Muskoka Outlaws Baseball Academy organized a door to door food collection in early December with great results. Here Joe Hicks, Association President, along with a strong helper, deliver the large donation of food collected to the food bank. Great players doing a great job for their Community. Thank You!
The Country 102 Team of Michelle, Matt and Stanley merrily manned the Country 102 van outside of Gagnon’s Independent Grocery Store on a November Saturday.They did this with great energy and enthusiasm which is reflected in the very large amount of food and financial donations collected from our caring Community. The on-going support of the …
Staff at Cavalcade Ford are happy to dress down on ‘Casual Fridays’ with donations collected for Manna Food Bank. Staff were comfortable and a comfortable donation was made to Manna. Sue from Cavalcade is shown presenting a cheque to Manna Volunteer Sam.
Through the Muskoka Farms Matter event the Muskoka Federation of Agriculture raised awareness of the incredible value of local farms and raised money to be donated to local food banks at the same time. On a very soggy afternoon, Steve Bacon and Brian Currie from the Federation presented Manna Volunteer Sam with a generous cheque.Thank …