The City of Peterborough and Wolfe Personal Injury Lawyers presented Kawartha Food Share with a cheque for $12,001.77 on Wednesday (February 12) at Kawartha Food Share’s warehouse at 665 Neal Drive.
The funds came from the city’s two-hour free holiday parking promotion that ran from November 29 to December 31 at all downtown municipal parking spaces, including on-street parking, municipal parking lots, the King Street Parking Garage, and the Simcoe Street Parking Garage.
Parking fees that were voluntarily paid at pay-and-display machines, parking meters, or via the HotSpot App during the free two-hour period were donated to Kawartha Food Share. The promotion was sponsored by Wolfe Personal Injury Lawyers.
City of Peterborough parking operations supervisor Lynn Todd and Town Ward councillors Alex Bierk and Joy Lachica, along with Bill Wolfe of Wolfe Personal Injury Lawyers, presented the cheque to Kawartha Food Share general manager Ashlee Aitken.
“We are very thankful for the continued support of the City of Peterborough and the wonderful citizens who visited and shopped downtown this holiday season,” Aitken said in a media release. “This donation will allow us to purchase much needed nutritious food items for community members in need.”
Since it began 2003, the two-hour free holiday parking promotion has raised $251,627.65 for Kawartha Food Share.
Kawartha Food Share currently helps around 14,000 people every month through its 36 member agencies, along with supporting 17,000 schoolchildren at 51 area schools through breakfast and nutrition programs. It supports four meal programs, seven city food banks, six housing projects, seven county food banks, and over 20 food cupboards across the city and county of Peterborough.
