The Burlington Food Bank recognizes today as International Women’s Day and to that end, we rely heavily on many women here to make it work so well. Diane Gris is our leader at the Food Bank organizing all volunteers, arranging deliveries and looking after health safety protocols. We have a number of women helping us out each day as volunteers. Our board Chair is Maria Thornton and we’re lucky to have Mary Gowan and Lesley Fox and Lisa Kearns who provide stewardship and strategy.

Congratulations on winning YWCA awards of distinction to our friends Lisa Lunski (coordinator for the Friday Night Community at Wellington Square ), Christina Mulder (Director of Programs and Partnerships for Open Doors at St. Christopher’s) and Colleen Mulholland (CEO of the Burlington Community Foundation). We are very proud of our continued partnership with each and the incredible impact they’re having here in Burlington!

And finally we’d like to recognize and thank our female government leaders at all levels including municipal, MPPs and MPs (Marianne Meed Ward, Lisa Kearns, Shawna Stolte, Jane McKenna, Karina Gould and Pam Damoff) for doing such an amazing job and for helping us out whenever we need it.