Wild Rose Vacations Holding Food Drive for the Calgary Food Bank

Local Aberta Business helps the Calgary Food bank by collecting canned goods for the less fortunate.

[ClickPress, Sat Dec 06 2008] Wild Rose Vacations an Alberta based travel club is no starger to charity drives.We have been helping for years say’s Aamer the manager of the Calgary location.We ask that people that will attend our preview here in our travel center that they bring a canned good and the response has been overwhelming.its nice to see people willing to bring some food to help there fellow man

History of the Food Bank:

In the winter of 1982 volunteer initiative, with the assistance of the Calgary Inter-Faith Community Action Association, created the Food Bank to aid Calgarians suffering financial strain due to the fallout in the Oil & Gas industry.

Over the 23 years, Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank has grown from a small charity in a church basement with four volunteers, to a million dollar organization in a 60,000 square foot building, with a volunteer base of 4,000 strong.

The Food Bank has had to continually move as it keeps outgrowing it’s accommodations. It’s original location was located at the First Lutheran Church, on Fairmount Drive South.

Not long after, the food bank moved to the Baker House on 4th Ave and Macleod Trail S.E. where they had access to a refrigeration unit.

In 1983 a further move was made to a larger space located in the basement of the Ross Kerr Building at the Corner of Kensington and 10th Street N.W. due to the ever-expanding need for space.

During this time the Food Bank was already delivering up to 40 hampers a day through their depots, while at the same time, supplying their agencies with bulk food.

The Food Bank is an emergency Food service. Anybody can find himself or herself in financial crisis. "If you have just been laid off would you sell your car or use it to get another job?"

Wild Rose Vacations Holds there daily seminars at there Calgary and Edmonton Location and ask that anyone attend between Dec 1 till Dec 20 bring a non perishable food item and support this worthy organaztion and that we live in a society that has such a thing,Aamer says this a great country we live in and we all need to help when we can.It has been a good year for us so we need to help were and when we can Wild Rose Vacation center in Calgary is located on1003 - 4515 Macleod Trail S.W.

Contact:

Tim Halicki
Wild Rose Vacations
1003 - 4515 Macleod Trail S.W.
Calgary, Alberta T2G 0A5
Main: 403.225.6100
Fax: 403.278.8048
Timothy@wildrosevacations.com
http://wildrosevacations.com