The Kamloops Food Bank is gearing up for its 24th food drive which goes tomorrow and its Executive Director is hoping for a successful event.

Speaking on The Jeff Andreas Show, Bernadette Siracky says those yellow bags have been distributed throughout Kamloops and she asks people who can to fill them and it will be going about collected supplies in a different way as it aims to respect physical distancing guidelines. “This time in order to proceed we needed to create a very strict process that honoured all the social distancing guidelines and the sanitizing guidelines, etc. So, this time around there’s really no celebration other than a full a warehouse on our end I am hoping.”

Siracky says there are also six drop off locations where people will unload their vehicles and then once you pull away a volunteer will come and collect. “We’re going to have tables with banana boxes and two volunteers at each drop zone. So the vehicle is going to pull up to a drop zone, they are going to unload their own vehicle into banana boxes and drive away and then our two volunteers, maintaining safe distance, are going to package in up unload those boxes and put it on a pallet.”

People can also fill bags and leave them out for collection. “We’re asking people to fill those, put them as far away from your house at the edge of your driveway. Rotarians will come and pick those up.  We really need that product. There has been an unpredictability of donations since the crisis hit.”

Since the first Rotary Food Drive in 2008, more than one millions pounds of food has been collected.