We know it takes a village to raise a child. Well the same goes for a food drive. Once again, the Muskoka Oldtimers Fall Food Drive for Manna is indeed a huge success, thanks to all of YOU. Kudos to the Muskoka Oldtimers for their long-standing hard work and loyalty. This is 27 years now …
September 13, 2018 — Mark your calendars, Bracebridge! The 2018 Muskoka Oldtimers Fall Food Drive for Manna is taking place on Tuesday October 2, and the Oldtimers need you! IMPORTANT VOLUNTEER INFORMATION Oldtimers Fall Food Drive 2018 Date: Tuesday October 2nd, 2018 Meeting Place: Monck Public School Gym When: Just before 5:00pm Collection Drop-off: Bracebridge …
Bracebridge Muskoka Lakes Secondary School has for a number of years supported Manna through its Pasta Challenge. 2018 is no exception. But this year the challenge was expanded to include rice and cereals as well, and always the response was generous. Thank you to Hannah, and the other BMLSS students and staff for supporting your …
November 1, 2017 — The kids from Monck Public School have been hugely busy. They ran an in-school food drive for Manna and today they dropped off two trucks full of donations totalling 1,700 items. While at the food bank volunteers walked them through the process of being a client and they asked lots of …
This is Arlene Reville, General Manager of the Muskoka Lakes Association, with the first installment of donated food collected during the MLA Cottage Close-up Campaign. Here’s how it works: When closing their cottages for the season, members of the MLA are encouraged to drop unopened non-perishable food items from their cupboards off at several locations …
Derek Simson of SNAP Fitness in Bracebridge presents food and money to Manna President Sam Robinson. SNAP participated in the CN Tower Stair Climb again this year with several participants completing the climb. Their times were between 15 and 30 minutes (be still my heart!). As part of the event, a food drive was held …
Once again we see that there is so much talent as well as sense of community in Bracebridge, and Manna continues to be its grateful beneficiary. This incredible cake (Yes it’s a cake. No it’s not a photo of a Manna Board member!) recently found its way to Bracebridge Public School, courtesy of Mellissa Smith …
SNAP Fitness has taken steps – 1,776 of them, to be exact – to support both Manna and the World Wildlife Fund. This fit bunch successfully completed the CN Tower climb and raised both food and cash along the way. In addition to over 100 kilos of food raised for Manna, the World Wildlife Fund …
Many thanks go to our friends at Macauley Public School for their many food-raisers. The students and staff are very dedicated supporters of Manna Food Bank. This most recent campaign run by the school’s Social Justice unit, was called ‘We Scare Hunger’. This was a very enthusiastic group of students who collected roughly four hundred …
Thank you so much to the students of BMLSS and Huntsville High for their Pasta Challenge, a friendly competition between the two local high schools to see who could bring in the most starchy stuff for Manna. Together the students raised an amazing 1,128 boxes of pasta and $381.00 cash. Woo-woo! (And pssst, BMLSS whopped …