ElliotLakeToday would like to correct the total amount of food collected by the Firefighters Christmas Food Drive on Saturday.
The total collected amounted to $38,650 not $55,000, as was previously reported.
Compared to last year’s total of $44,000 worth of food donations, this year’s total has actually gone down. In fact, after the amount of work and effort completed by volunteers, the actual amount of food collected door to door was worth $38,650, with an amount of $3,897 of cash donations.
The Elliot Lake Emergency Food Bank tells ElliotLakeToday that the amount of food donations has been dropping for the last five years as the need from families has risen.