A huge response to Walmart’s Fight Hunger Spark Change, the campaign to help stock food banks.
A Jail and Bail held at the Fort Frances store on the weekend helped collect $2,388.75. Eighty-one bags of groceries, coming in at an additional $810-dollars worth of needed food items, also came in for the Salvation Army.
Auxiliary Captain Arthur Heathcote and Salvation Army volunteer Jill Pernsky went behind bars for the cause.
Salvation Army volunteer Jill Pernsky behind bars as part of Walmart’s Fight Hunger, Spark Change campaign, February 2021 (Supplied photo)
Auxiliary Captain Arthur Heathcote behind bars as part of Walmart’s Fight Hunger, Spark Change Campaign, February 2021 (Supplied photo)
Heathcote says he’s ecstatic by the response. Walmart’s campaign continues until March 17.
Meantime, the Salvation Army will reopen its Thrift Store in Fort Frances on Monday.
Donations to the store will also be welcome begin then from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays.
