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Food Drive one of the best yet
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Busy volunteers organize and put away donations collected throughout the annual food drive held in Sparwood on Sunday.
JEFF CHAMBERS
Elk Valley Herald Reporter
The holiday season is starting off right with first responders in Sparwood hosting their annual food drive.

At 5:30 pm on December 4, volunteers rolled out to collect food, toys, and cash for those who need a little help.

Hosted by Sparwood Ambulance, the Sparwood Fire Department, Sparwood Search and Rescue and Sparwood Air Cadets, the evening went smoothly and brought in surprising amounts of donations for the Sparwood Food Bank and Toys for Tots.

"Put it this way," joked, Ed Ehrler with Sparwood Search and Rescue. "If this keeps up the Food Bank is going to need a bigger place because they won't have enough room to keep all the stuff we bring them."
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In around 3 hours out in the cold and snow first responders were able to collect approximately 10 truck loads of food and toys and raised plenty of cash.

"We usually get just over $1000 every year but then this year we raised $1545.95," said Ehrler. "The food bank lost count of how many drop-offs we did because there were so many. It went really well this year, I was very impressed."
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