Category: Announcements

We are currently seeking volunteers to help with this year’s event on September 25. We need help with three tasks for the Big Blue Food Drive: Drivers/RunnersOur driver/runner pairs are assigned a pre-determined route to collect the curbside donations. These volunteers should arrive at St. Vincent Place by no later than 9:45 am the day Read More

We’re looking for some volunteers for Lunches for Learning for the upcoming school year to help with: picking up the grocery order (Thursday mornings) putting together the food packages (Thursday afternoons) delivering the packages (Friday, morning or afternoon) You can volunteer to help with any of these tasks – you’re not obligated to help with Read More

As of September 1, food bank clients will again need to wait 2 months between food bank visits. The food bank remains open on Wednesdays 4:30 to 7 and Saturdays 11:30 to 2. (*Note that we had originally stated this would begin on October 1 but after further discussions with our food bank coordinator, we’ve Read More

In July 2021, our food bank helped 237 families. That breaks down as: 164 single-person households46 two-person households13 three-person households10 four-person households2 five-person households2 six-person households Based on the costs of each package (if you missed our last post breaking it down, check it out here), that works out to: Single person households = $6,314Two-person households Read More

We want to thank everyone who has reached out to us recently interested in donating clothing to our thrift store. Unfortunately, our storage areas are still just too full to be able to accept any further clothing donations at this time. If you’re able to hold onto them for a few weeks, we hope to Read More

The Thrift Store will be closed from July 1 to July 4. It will reopen on July 5 at 11am for usual hours. Thanks for supporting the SVP Thrift Store!

We have been overwhelmed by the community’s generosity and are truly grateful for your support. Unfortunately we are not able to accept any donations to our store until further notice as all of our storage areas are overflowing. Please do not drop donations off at the door. We have no room left and there is Read More

This month we recognize volunteer Peter Hewgill. Peter volunteers in our soup kitchen on Serge Viau’s team “Friends Who Care.” This is the team’s, and Peter’s, third year with St. Vincent Place. “Peter is in charge of the kitchen duties for our Saturday lunches,” said Serge. “He gets the soup ready and pours it into Read More

We’re excited to announce that the St. Vincent Place Thrift Store will be reopening on Monday, June 14. Hours will return to Monday to Friday 11:00am to 3:00 pm (except holidays) All COVID protocols will continue to be followed – the number of customers in the store at any given time will be capped to Read More

In May, our soup kitchen served 1,092 meals, of which 29 went to children. Thank you to the soup kitchen teams who served meals in May: Bethel Bible ChapelTeam Rita WagnerEmmaus Anglican ChurchMother Teresa Conference (two teams)Bethany Baptist ChurchMcDougall EnergyBarker FamilyFriends Who Care