Anyone shopping for Christmas groceries may wish to keep an eye out for a decorated ambulance collecting for local food hampers.
BC Ambulance paramedic Jaqui Ward is organizing a Red & White Hunger Fight food drive that will see her and her helpers canvassing for non-perishable donations outside of local grocery stores.
Watch for the ambulance and volunteers at Save-On-Foods on Dec. 6 and at Safeway on Dec. 21.
"It's festive, we'll put on our little reindeer hats and I'm going to have candy canes to hand out to those who donate."
They'll also be handing out a short-list of most-needed items for anyone unsure what to buy, and a jar for cash donations to food banks, she says.
Ward is new to the community, and hopes to do as well as she did in Prince Rupert, where she filled the ambulance with food three times on two occasions for local folks in need.
