Easter tradition marches on at Dew Drop Inn
Charity offers to-go dinners for Easter, with demand for support rising during the pandemic.
Apr 5, 2021 8:10 AM By: Ian Kaufman
Volunteers prepared hundreds of Easter meals to go on Sunday. (Ian Kaufman, tbnewswatch.com)
THUNDER BAY – Michael Quibell is looking forward to the day when he can once again sit down with patrons of the Dew Drop Inn for a meal.
In the meantime, though, the soup kitchen isn’t letting up on its giving tradition, offering hundreds of Easter meals to go Sunday afternoon to respect COVID-19 health measures.
The turkey dinner is a community effort, Quibell said, made possible with the help of volunteers who helped prepare and serve it, as well as community groups that support the Dew Drop Inn.
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More food is heading to northern First Nation communities thanks to teamwork between food banks and Nishnawbe Aski Police. Volker Kromm is the Executi.
Posted: Feb 12, 2021 3:37 PM ET | Last Updated: February 12
A shipping container headed by ice road to a remote First Nation in northern Ontario contains several flats of frozen food and a back-up generator.(Logan Turner / CBC)
There aren t that many people in northwestern Ontario that would describe the region s recent deep freeze as relieving or lucky. But standing outside a handful of shipping containers at Secure Store on a frigid Thursday morning, Volker Kromm and Rod Brown count themselves among the few to disagree.
The two men formed a unique partnership to split costs and shipping space to transport necessary food and equipment north to 16 remote First Nations.