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Manitoulin Family Resources sees massive rise in foodbank use during pandemic

September 2, 2020

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MFR-food-boxes — Manitoulin Family Resources food security program co-ordinator Linda Gilchrist and executive director Marnie Hall present the organization’s emergency food boxes, part of 16 skids of food supplies that came from Canada Food Banks as part of a federal initiative. photo by Michael Erskine

MINDEMOYA - Manitoulin Family Resources (MFR) has had to make some tough decisions with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, but one of the easier ones has been to repurpose the Help Centre into a much larger food bank. That is because not only has MFR had to stop taking in donations of clothing, books […]

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Michael Erskine

Michael Erskine BA (Hons) is a staff writer at The Manitoulin Expositor. He received his honours BA from Laurentian University in 1987. His former lives include underground miner, oil rig roughneck, early childhood educator, elementary school teacher, college professor and community legal worker. Michael has written several college course manuals and has won numerous Ontario Community Newspaper Awards in the rural, business and finance and editorial categories.