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Backpack Buddies!

Have you heard of Backpack Buddies ? It's an initiative by Community First Foundation to feed kids in the DTES, currently providing over 300 of them on a bi-weekly basis with breakfasts, lunches, and dinners plus snacks, yogurt, cheese, and fresh fru

Have you heard of Backpack Buddies? It's an initiative by Community First Foundation to feed kids in the DTES, currently providing over 300 of them on a bi-weekly basis with breakfasts, lunches, and dinners plus snacks, yogurt, cheese, and fresh fruit. Here's a video that explains their work.

https://vimeo.com/84612767

The Foundation is holding a fundraiser party called Halloween for Hunger on Thursday, October 30th at 9PM at the Portside Pub which they're turning into a haunted pirate ship and offering entry by donation. Anyone who donates $20 or more will get a free beer and either a sailor hat, pirate hat, or an eye patch to keep ye olde ghost pirates at bay!

Learn more at theportsidepub.com or call (604) 559-6333.