Editor:
Serving the needy people on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside for 35 years, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the many people who have helped us along the way.
Every Saturday just before 10 a.m., the white truck of the Food on the Corner Society leaves the parking lot behind the Thrifty Foods and Joe’s Farm Market loaded with goods provided by the residents of Ladner and Tsawwassen for its weekly mission, serving folks in this most impoverished area. In all these many years, this ministry has never failed even one Saturday.
I am so thankful for the many helpers who, week by week, make this important mission possible. The soup and sandwich makers, the folks that drive and serve, they all do so on a totally voluntary basis. Some of our volunteers have been involved for all those 35 years.
The activity at our society starts early in the week by some of our volunteers who collect the food items and then store them in our small warehouse. The truck is loaded early Friday morning by a band of faithful men and then on Saturday morning soup, sandwiches and three urns of coffee are added, dropped off by volunteers, many of them local families.
Who are some of our volunteers? You might be surprised to find out we have, at times, school classes who make sandwiches, older folks in seniors homes also contribute making delicious sandwiches, some of the ladies contribute by knitting items for the cold winter months. Multi-generational families are involved with even the young children chopping vegetables for the soup and grandfathers making sandwiches.
We have often been told that our soup and our service is absolutely the best in the area.
We are a non-profit organization established in May of 1990. If you would like to get involved with this society, check us out at WWW.foodonthecorner.ca.
Again, my thanks to all our volunteers.
Hermann Glockl
Founder
Food on the Corner Society
