Over the weekend, Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakinak’s Food Bank received a shipment of food packages from Manitoba Harvest.

Yesterday that food was distributed to those housing family and friends from Pimicikimak Cree Nation here in Thompson.

Also on the weekend, Aubrey, Ana and Ellen from Ecole Riverside School’s student council were on hand at Safeway to collect food packages for the evacuees from Cross Lake, under the supervision of Mrs. Beniwal and Madame Mervat from the school.

In all, they collected 105 packages of food, valued at over one-thousand dollars.