Staff of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council Quu?asa and Teechuktl programs served up a turkey dinner with all the trimmings to low income families from the Alberni Valley.
The lunch hour meal was held at the United Church on Dec. 11. Volunteers provided transportation from downtown Port Alberni for those that couldn’t afford to take the bus.
Donations of warm winter clothing were set out on tables and given away.
Nurses from the NTC Health Outreach Program were on hand to give out health information and to provide flu shots and HIV tests.
There were plenty of door prizes and lots of drumming and singing as Quu?asa staff cooked and served turkey dinners.
Coordinated by Justin Dorward of Quu?asa, the annual Feed the People event saw hundreds of happy people leave with full bellies and holiday cheer.
“I would like to thank all those that helped make this year’s Feed the People event a huge success,” Dorward said. He thanked the United Church for donating the use of their hall for the lunch.
“I would also like to thank all the people that donated warm winter clothing, and I would also like to thank the staff from the Health Outreach Program (HOP Team) for helping us with rides and serving the people,” he continued.
“If all these people didn’t help out in the way that they did, this event would never have been the huge success that it was,” Dorward said.
NTC Quu?asa acknowledges the following for their kind donations or for volunteering: Quality Foods, Fairway Market, Buy-Low Foods, Smitty’s Restaurant, Port Dental Care, Five Star Embroidery & Silk Screening Inc., Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, NTC Nursing Department, Ray and Linda Seitcher, Richard and Linus Lucas, Pearl Dorward, Tammy Dorward, Francine Gascoyne, Jeff Gallic, Joe Tom, Simon Read, Lisa Watts, Priscilla Antoine, Adrian Andrew, Dave Zryd, Phyllis Rossignol, Kirunn Shamra, Matilda Atleo, Vina Robinson and Richard Watts, for all the food or gift bags donations.
