Drive through fair donations Backs the Build, helps stock food bank shelves
Administrator | Oct 06, 2021 | Comments 0
Pictured in front of the Crystal Palace at the Picton Fairgrounds, from left, are: Phil Prinzen, PEC Council’s representative to the Agricultural Society; Larry Everall, president of the PE Ag Society; Shannon Coull, executive director of the PECMH Foundation; Linda Downey from the Storehouse Foodbank; Tina Hiddink, treasurer and secretary for the PE Ag Society and Ellen Brownbill, treasurer of the Picton United Church Foodbank.
– Briar Boyce photo
With the Picton Fair being postponed for a second year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Prince Edward Agricultural Society hosted its second annual drive through event at the fairgrounds.
More than 1,500 people cruised through the fairgrounds to take in agricultural-themed displays and enjoy favourite fair foods.
Admission was free of charge, but donations to the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Foundation, the Picton United Church Food Bank and the Wellington Storehouse Food Bank were encouraged.
Donations raised $5,000 and saw $2,000 donated to the PECMHF’s Back the Build Campaign for a new hospital in Prince Edward County. Each food bank received $1,500.
The donation brings the society’s cumulative giving total to PECMHF to $14,705 over a 13-year partnership with the Agricultural Society.
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