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Over $468,000 is going to help bring food to families in the region. The money is coming from the Thunder Bay District Social Services Administration .
Staff at Thunder Bay’s overdose prevention site are warning people about possible tainted drugs in the city, according to the director of health services for its operator, Norwest Community Health Centres.
Every Tuesday afternoon from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., there is a small pop up market on Limbrick Street at the Limerick Resource Centre (Unit 97) - the Community Food Market. Launched by Roots to Harvest in September 2020, the project is funded by Community Food Centres Canada, a non-profit organization that seeks to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities.
“People coming to the market know that we are providing at wholesale prices, and that they can come back and continue to purchase food,” says Kim McGibbon, the food and kitchen director at Roots to Harvest. “The goal of the program is about increasing accessibility of fresh fruits and vegetables and increasing consumption, and long term, increasing health.”
It filled unmet needs in the community, but Friday is the last day for the care bus in Thunder Bay, Ont.
The care bus filled a lot of unmet needs in Thunder Bay, Ont., by providing a safe, warm place for people in need as shelters and warming centres hit capacity throughout the winter, said NorWest Community Health Centre s chief executive officer Juanita Lawson.
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The initiative was created in response to a need for access to warm spaces, necessary supplies and services
Posted: Apr 16, 2021 9:05 AM ET | Last Updated: April 16
Two outreach workers with NorWest Community Health Centres in Thunder Bay, Ont., stand in front of the care bus, a full-size city bus staffed with harm reduction workers, and filled with essential supplies like food, water, clothes and PPE.(Submitted by Selina Gunn)