PHOTOS: Marathon’s 1st Trick or Eat a HUGE Success!

Written by admin on 03 November 2010

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More helping hands, photo courtesy of Karen Richard.

MARATHON, ON – Approximately 60 volunteers, drivers, door-to-door canvassers and sorters, with Marthon’s 1st Trick or Eat™, organized by Karen Richard, went out on Halloween night, October 31st 2010, collecting non-perishable food items for theMarathon Collective Community Food Bank.

The group collected approximately 3,520 food items, which translates into approximately $8,800.00 worth of food! About 85% – 90% of the Town was covered. This event couldn’t have happened without the volunteers, sponsors or the generous people of Marathon.

"I think that it’s such a good message to send to the kids" said organizer Karen Richard adding "We often take it for granted that everyone has enough to eat at all times."

Richard wanted to offer “Huge thanks to Barrick Gold Hemlo, D.H. Foods, Signs and Embroidery, the drivers, the people who went door to door collecting the food and the volunteers who sorted”. Volunteers from the Marathon Community Collective Food Bank were on hand to help out wherever it was needed; going door to door, driving and picking up the full bags and receiving and sorting the food. It was a sea of green in the food bank entrance as filled Trick or Eat bags flooded in. Many high school students volunteered as well as some adults who went with their small children.

Richard had worried that details of Trick or Eat™ may not get out in time but said that “Thanks to the Marathon Mercury, CFNO and OntarioNewsNorth.com the word got out”. Richard was overjoyed with the generosity of Marathon residents pointing out that many people had bags of food or cases of canned goods ready to go. Hopefully this will be an event that becomes a Halloween standard in Marathon and Manitouwadge!