The Lords Bounty Food Bank’s Allison Dallas Funk reports they have joined other organizations in preparing free lunches.  She explains the Food Bank has partnered with the Salvation Army so on Mondays and Fridays you can access a bag lunch between 11:30 and 12:30 at the Food Bank location or down by Aspen Grove adjacent to McIsaac School.  She adds starting in the summer months they will be doing lunch programs paired with Flin Flon Rotary at Rotary Park on Mondays 11:30 to 12:30 and also down below the hill at McIsaac area and the Friendship Centre is stepping up this summer as well and doing a great program there handing out lunches Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Funk adds since the lifting of COVID restriction the last five months the number of Food Bank clients has increased by 40 percent.  She notes last month they had 398 people access the Food Bank with 47 percent identified as children and 75 percent identified as Indigenous.