支持卡尔加里食品银行市长第31届圣诞食品捐赠活动

卡尔加里教育局是卡尔加里食品银行的长期支持者。我们非常赞赏该组织在我们社区、学校以及我们许多学生和家庭的生活中所产生的积极影响。我们回馈支持的其中一种方式是参加市长每年的圣诞食品捐赠活动。

每年12月，我们会在捐赠活动的启动仪式和一些学校中举办食品筹集活动。今年是市长每年的第31次圣诞食品捐赠活动，据说，卡尔加里教育局从第一次捐赠活动开始就一直参与其中，并且通常有最多的学校参与学校筹集活动。

本周早些时候，一支小而热情的卡尔加里教育局员工小组与其他公共组织、本地企业、媒体机构和内讷市长一起参加了捐赠活动的启动仪式。我们的团队与Wild 95.3和101.5 FM Today Radio的参与者合作，在Crowfoot Safeway购物中心急速抓取了一些卡尔加里食品银行最需要的物品。然后，我们一起用收集到的杂货建造了一个结构，并演唱了一首特别为市长改编的《The 12 Days of Christmas》。尽管我们在活动中获得了第三名和铜色购物车奖，但真正的赢家是卡尔加里食品银行以及我们社区中得到帮助的每个人。

几所学校将在11月和12月期间举办食品筹集活动。收集到的所有食品和捐款都将用于卡尔加里食品银行，以帮助需要在假期期间需要食品的家庭和个人。2018年的全市活动筹集了总计120万加元的食品和资金。市长对今年的活动设定了很高的目标，并鼓励大家慷慨捐赠。

Supporting the Calgary Food Bank at the Mayor's 31^st Annual Christmas Food Drive Kick-Off Event

The CBE is a long-time supporter of the Calgary Food Bank. We appreciate the positive impact the organization makes in our communities, our schools and in the lives of many of our students and their families. One of the ways we give our support back is during the Mayor's Annual Christmas Food Drive.

We do this each December, at both at the kick-off event and with drives in some of our schools. This year marks the 31^st Mayor's Annual Christmas Food Drive and, anecdotally, the CBE has participated since the first drive and usually has the most schools participating in a school-based drive.

Earlier this week, a small but enthusiastic group of CBE employees participated in the kick-off event along with other public organizations, local businesses, media outlets and Mayor Nenshi. Our group of fierce competitors raced around Crowfoot Safeway grabbing some of the Calgary Food Bank's most requested items. The group partnered with the Wild 95.3 and 101.5 FM Today Radio participants. Together, we then built a structure with the gathered groceries and sang a modified rendition of The 12 Days of Christmas crafted especially for the mayor. We came away from the event with a third place win and the Bronze Shopping Cart award, but the real winner is the Calgary Food Bank and everyone it supports in our community.

Several schools will be holding a food drive during November and December. All of the food and donations collected go to the Calgary Food Bank, to feed families and individuals in need during the holidays. The 2018 city-wide campaign raised a total of $1.2 million in food and funds. The mayor has big goals for this year's drive and encouraged everyone to donate generously.