The folks at the Crescent Valley Resource Centre are thrilled the Friars Sisters are contributing $50,000 for the five priority neighbourhoods.
Executive director Anne Driscoll says it will keep literacy and food security programs going at the centre.
“Family events around literacy, whether it’s book giveaways, whether it’s literacy events like board game night, movie night, all incorporating literacy activities into those events,” Driscoll says.
“We have something called Savvy Soup where residents come and make soup under the direction of one of our staff members. They test it and then they take some home.”
Driscoll says it is a skill-building exercise where people can learn to make an inexpensive meal for themselves and their families.
The Friars Sisters present a cheque for more than $50,000 to the five priority neighbourhoods and over $21,000 to the endowment fund they launched last year. pic.twitter.com/EUHOU1PETj
— Tamara Steele (@tamarasteele1) January 4, 2019
The centre, located on MacLaren Boulevard in Saint John’s north end, also has a program called Veggie Pots.
“Pots that you can put on your patio, your front step with summer vegetables,” Driscoll says. “You can grow them easily without having a full-fledged garden plot.”
(Photo: Tamara Steele/Acadia News)
