Thousands of local residents have helped feed a need this Thanksgiving weekend, in record fashion.

The BC Thanksgiving Food Drive saw approximately 250 volunteers ranging in age from six years to 84 years of age, canvass Vernon and Coldstream and delivered approximately 11,000 paper bags to doorsteps throughout the community.

Residents were asked to fill brown bags with non-perishable food items and leave them on their doorsteps to be collected on Sept. 25. Volunteers picked up more than 3,100 bags filled with approximately 37,800 pounds of food.

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The event, hosted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, also saw an army of volunteers from the House of Hope Food Bank who collected, weighed and stored the donations.

Save On Foods害羞草研究所� two Vernon locations also collected an abundance of food with bins on location.

And this year, for the first time, several schools in the district stepped up and participated in the event. Vernon Christian School, Silver Star Elementary, Kidston Elementary, Seaton Secondary and Kalamlaka Secondary rallied together and collected a whopping 2,000 lbs of food within their schools.

B.C.-wide more than 480,000 lbs of food was collected on the Thanksgiving Food Drive.

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