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FORTIFYING THE COMMUNITY – City staff and representatives of the beneficiaries of the Food for Fines campaign are seen with the $12,000 cheque earlier this week. Photo courtesy CITY OF WHITEHORSE
Food for Fines campaign yielded $12,000
The City of Whitehorse presented a $12,000 cheque this week to the Whitehorse Food Bank, Kaushee’s Place and the Skookum Jim Friendship Centre, setting a new record for its annual Food for Fines campaign.
The City of Whitehorse presented a $12,000 cheque this week to the Whitehorse Food Bank, Kaushee’s Place and the Skookum Jim Friendship Centre, setting a new record for its annual Food for Fines campaign.
This includes $2,760 in food donations.
“This year, the Food for Fines program set a new record,” Mayor Laura Cabott said Wednesday.
“This year’s donations will go a long way in supporting the Food Bank, Kaushee’s Place, and the Skookum Jim Friendship Centre during the holiday season.
“Thank you to the staff and volunteers who support these organizations and to our Bylaw Services officers whose hard work makes this program such a success,” the mayor added.
The Food for Fines campaign gives the option of donating cash or food of equal value to a parking ticket.
Parking meter ticket fines received between Nov. 26 and Dec. 10 were eligible, and donations were accepted until Dec. 14.
Since 2005, the city has raised more than $92,000 in cash and food donations for the cause.
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Comments (6)
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Want fries with that? on Dec 28, 2022 at 10:52 pm
Yes, when I (not) illegally park, it should naturally compute to a free meal for some loser who frequently hustles drugs in front of our property, then vandalizes our property if we complain to a pig who’s too busy collecting cans of ravioli (they don’t care for beans, see) to investigate. I know what happens to those who don’t say thank you for a good screwing. So: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!
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SH on Dec 28, 2022 at 8:10 am
I contributed $10 tpwards that. You're welcome.
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Semantics schemantics on Dec 24, 2022 at 5:00 pm
Charlie's Aunt on Dec 23, 2022 at 4:01 pm:
Naughty ‘drivers’? You realize that they are ‘parking’ tickets right? No one was driving much less committing a driving offence.
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Charlie's Aunt on Dec 23, 2022 at 4:01 pm
So they set a record. Big surprise, increased population equals increased traffic and increased naughty drivers!
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Matthew on Dec 23, 2022 at 6:52 am
92K since 2005, sad really, since City was going to spend 11M to bring winter games here, only for NVD to profit from them..
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Josey Wales on Dec 22, 2022 at 2:51 pm
Could you imagine being so outta touch, clueless even...that turning a record of fines, certain involuntary donated taxes, into food to go to our “food bank” as an accomplishment?
Anyone else see the cognitive dissonance here?
A first world city, proud of supplying the food bank food via taxing the very folks getting poorer?
Guess Krause is right, we will own nothing soon...but are to be engineered to their happy...not ours
...look at what nobility did for the rubes, how nice.
Next year quadruple the fines YOU CIVIC wizards can concoct, then hold a party for THAT record you set...via punishment for those that fall outta YOUR line.
Asshats, striving for submission, poverty and perpetuate class warfare.
I suggest in the strongest of ways...