{"id":41549,"date":"2017-12-10T15:58:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T22:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/?p=41549"},"modified":"2021-02-07T20:16:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T03:16:38","slug":"city-non-profit-getting-leftover-food-to-those-who-need-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2017\/12\/10\/city-non-profit-getting-leftover-food-to-those-who-need-it\/","title":{"rendered":"City non-profit getting leftover food to those who need it"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>he non-profit group LeftOvers, collects food that originally is heading for the landfill, and instead redirects it to people in need.<\/p>\n

A<\/span>ccording to the group’s website, Rescuefood.ca<\/a>, there are several service agencies that receive food through LeftOvers, including the Calgary\u2019s Drop-In Centre, the Mustard Seed, and the Boys and Girls Club.<\/p>\n

Founder of LeftOvers Lourdes Juan started off back in 2012 with the idea to donate leftover\u00a0 food to people at her church.<\/p>\n

Since then, she has recruited a great support team, not only in Calgary but in Edmonton as well.<\/p>\n

People donate their own time, and gas, to help transport the food to various locations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe non-profit is operated seven days of the week,\u201d said Juan. \u201cWe collect food from our vendors, and have volunteers deliver it.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are currently 130 volunteers, 25 different vendors, and 18 service agencies that work with LeftOvers, according to Rescuefood.ca.<\/p>\n

Juan said, that in the northeast, the Old Spaghetti Factory has stepped up to help provide food for some school lunches.<\/p>\n

Every Monday the Old Spaghetti Factory donates pasta shells, which then are transported to make hot lunches on Tuesday for three Forest Lawn schools.<\/p>\n

Other companies such as COBS Bread, Starbucks, Second Cup, and Calgary\u2019s Farmers’ Market, have also donated food.<\/p>\n

Nike Falade is the owner and bakery manager of the COBS Bread location in Kensington.<\/p>\n

During September of this year, COBS teamed up with the Breakfast Club, to help create some breakfasts.<\/p>\n

In November, her company recently donated about 25 pounds of food to the John Howard Society, and another 35 pounds to the Alpha House.<\/p>\n

We collect food from our vendors, and have volunteers deliver it. – Lourdes Juan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sarah Lynch, manager of the produce and meat section at Blush Lane Organic Market, said that December is a busy time for the company.<\/p>\n

Not only is Blush Lane donating food to LeftOvers, it also has their \u201cplate full,\u201d as the company is making room to work with the online delivery system Spud.ca .<\/p>\n

Blush Lane donates about once a week, and gives away food that would usually be thrown out.<\/p>\n

Not only are they perishable items that are close to expiry date, but also spotted fruit as well, that would have been thrown out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Calgary based non-profit group, LeftOvers, is redirecting food that will be thrown out to the landfill, and instead donates to local charities in need. [ READ MORE ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_ef_editorial_meta_text_assignment-slug":"S5 LeftOvers","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-image","6":"category-city","7":"post_format-post-format-image"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41549"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41644,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41549\/revisions\/41644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}