Brockville – The 2024 Rotary Brockville Harvest Sharing Food Drive held this past Thursday, Friday and Saturday raised a total of $21,281.75 in funds and a total of 8412.72 lbs of food was donated.
This year the Rotary Club of the 1000 Islands and the Rotary Club of Brockville had a donation truck set up at the Brockville Superstore where people could donate funds and/or food for the Brockville & Area Food Bank.
On Friday the two radio stations, Brockville’s Move 104.9 and Brockville’s Bounce 103.7 were set up at the Superstore from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm with live reports and collecting donations.
Numerous Rotary and other volunteers helped by staffing the truck, and sorting the donations at the food bank.
As well a large amount of food was collected by a number of area schools and there were numerous separate fundraisers held in conjunction with the Harvest Sharing Food Drive to contribute to the final totals.
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