In this episode of The Love, YEG Show, Sherri Beauchamp and Jessie McCracken talks to Marjorie Benz the executive director of Edmonton's Food Bank. They talk about how the Edmonton's Food Bank got started and how can people help support, participate and donate.
[1:18] How the Edmonton's Food Bank got started.
[2:11] Edmonton's Food Bank - community participation.
[4:14] Changes in Edmonton's Food Bank.
[10:48] For the listeners that want to volunteer at the food bank.
[13:28] How can people help, support, participate and donate?
[17:14] How did she get into this line of work?
[21:41] How the Edmonton Food Bank became the template across the country.
[23:00] What she likes about Edmonton?
[25:13] What she wants to see innovated in Edmonton.
[28:08] How she wants to be remembered.
IMPORTANT QUOTES
"We rely heavily on volunteers."
"You feel close in Edmonton to other people."
"Young people love to help, we just sometimes don't know how to ask"