Despite Thanksgiving being right around the corner, the Kindersley Food Bank isn’t expecting a spike in donations.

In any community, the local food bank is one of the most well respected organizations, taking donations from the community and putting it towards food for the less fortunate. Food Banks are not able to do what they do without the support of the community. From larger centres to smaller rural food banks, continued support allows food banks to provide services to those in need.

However, the Kindersley Food Bank hasn’t been receiving an increase in donations leading up to Thanksgiving, and isn’t expecting one, as president Linda Resch explains.

“There’s an FCC (Farm Credit Canada) drive that is going around, and some of it isn’t collected yet, so because we don’t do Thanksgiving suppers or hampers or anything, there isn’t anything really big coming except the FCC Drive.”

However, there are still a few who offer donations fit for the season.

“Turkeys, stovetop stuffing, cans of cranberries, the normal stuff like juice, and peanut butter and all that kind of stuff. So nothing really more in particular than any other kind.”

Resch also reminds people that there are other ways to help out the food banks.

“Cash donations are welcome, because we buy milk, and apples, and potatoes, and carrots.”

While Resch and the rest of the Kindersley Food Bank don’t have any big plans for Thanksgiving, they are expecting a good haul from the FCC Drive.

“They get a lot of food for us, like canned goods, and that’s always a special time for us because a lot of food is coming in, because we were running dry; we were buying a lot of food, including soup which has never happened in out 12 years of existence.”

Food bank hampers are collected using the Canada Food Guide as a criteria for variety, nutrition and quantity, and are picked up on the third Thursday of the month.