Tim Hortons #SmileCookie Kick off Monday!
Robin is with Tom Buscarino, one of the Tim Hortons store owners in Burlington along with many other fellow store-owners that all came out today to kick-off the 2021 #smilecookie campaign. Every year they look forward to Smile Cookie week when they make thousands of cookies for generous customers and they donate 100% of the […]
Burlington Urban Farm – a community success story
Adria Cehovin wanted to thank all of the volunteers and the contributors for this week’s donations for families in Burlington. The Urban Farm has been harvesting many lbs of fresh food donations every week. The bountiful harvest is a result of the efforts of these amazing volunteers. Adria mentioned that everyone answered the call when […]
Next week is Tim Hortons Smile Cookie week
Just a reminder that next week is Tim Hortons #SmileCookie week, a delicious way to support the food bank and help families here in Burlington. Tim Hortons owners have been supporting the Burlington Food Bank for many years and this event is a major fundraiser raising $69,249 during the 2020 campaign. The funds will be […]
Hunger Action Month – Affordable Housing
September is Hunger Action Month with Feed Ontario and The Burlington Food Bank represents our City within this organization. As part of this educational initiative we wanted to let everyone know that about two-thirds of the people that receive food assistance from food banks across Ontario are actually on social assistance such as Ontario Works […]
September 13-19 is Tim Hortons Smile Cookie Week
Welcome back to school. We are hoping that teachers and kids both have the patience to get through the early part of this new school year. The Burlington Food Bank runs an excellent school snack program for all families with school aged children so hopefully that takes one worry off your minds. One of the […]
Snack Program for school aged kids
The Burlington Food Bank sends best wishes to teachers and students as they return to the classrooms. We have a healthy snack program that supports your children if they are school aged. We would like to thank the teachers who have been working hard preparing for this school year. Hopefully this time around is a […]
September at the Urban Farm means lots of healthy produce to harvest
The Urban Farm was able to harvest 87 lbs of fresh food donations on Tuesday, 25 lbs the day before. There were several other local gardeners that dropped of fresh produce as well. The Urban Farm serves as a funnel point for the gardeners in Burlington every Tuesday morning between 9am and 10am. Adria Cehovin […]
September is Hunger Action Month
September is Hunger Action Month and we wanted to bring a little awareness to what that means for the Burlington Food Bank. We are again building upon the four pillars of Educate, Advocate, Volunteer and Donate. It has been a challenging year for everyone in food banking but we hope that every Provincial Association and […]
Burlington Oldtimers Slo-pitch League donates refunds
Robin is with Steve Bourke and Scott Sinclair – both board members of the Burlington Oldtimers Slo-pitch League (BOSL – https://bosl.ca/). Due to covid safety measures the BOSL was not actually able to get onto Burlington fields until July so that left each player with a return of $65+. The board gave everyone options to […]
Fresh Produce Appreciated
We wanted to thank the people that have been helping us out with the incredible fresh produce this summer. Our own gardener Samantha has managed the Burlington Food Bank garden plots and many community residents have been very generous bringing what they have on hand to add to the produce at the Urban Farm each […]
