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Calgary Corporate Challenge
Thank you to Calgary Corporate Challenge and participating companies for their donation of 12,260 lbs of food and $2,767.47 as a result of their annual Scavenger Hunt Challenge.

This year the donations raised from Calgary Corporate Challenge on Saturday September 20th, helped the Calgary Food Bank set a new Guinness World Record for most food donated in a single day.

For more information about Calgary Corporate Challenge please visit www.calgarycorporatechallenge.com

Be a Fan, Bring a Can
The Calgary Stampeders, their fans, and Homes By Avi teamed up for a big win for the 18th Annual Be a Fan, Bring a Can Food Bank Drive.

The Be A Fan, Bring A Can food drive is led by wives and girlfriends of Stampeders coaches and players. They were at the McMahon Stadium gates on Monday, wearing their significant other’s jersey and collecting the food and cash donations. This year also marked the beginning of a wonderful partnership with Homes by Avi sponsoring the 18th Annual ‘Be a Fan, Bring a Can’ campaign and the Labour Day Classic.

Homes by Avi arrived at the Labour Day Classic with over $14,000 in food and cash donations and fans attending the game gave an amazing $58,384 at the McMahon Stadium gates. As a result, over $72,524 worth of food items and cash donations were raised throughout the program. The success of this year’s edition brings the 18 year total to approximately $425,500

Put the Boots to Hunger
an initiative developed by BD&P

Since the first cowboy rode into Calgary, the spirit of optimism, generosity and pride has been carried throug the years like golden saddlebags.

There comes a time however, in every rugged rider's life when they need a 'hand up' on the horse after falling off. The key is getting back on.

There is a kickin' crew of people and organizations behind this year's "Put the Boots to Hunger" campaign and there's still room on the chuck wagon, it's as easy as flippin' flapjacks!

Calgary this is your opportunity to Put the Boots To Hunger. Here are the companies involved during 2008.

• CBC Stampede Breakfast
• Purolator Stampede BBQ
• Carriage House Inn Stampede Breakfast
• Riverbend Community Association Stampede Breakfast
• Sunterra and Sirocco and Signal Hill Community Association Stampede Breakfast
• Imperial Oil
• Robert Half International
• SNC Lavalin
• Yellowpages
• Burnett Duckworth and Palmer
• Shaw Cable Systems
• Trimac Transportation
• Delta Bow Valley Hotel – Downtown
• Pinebrook Golf and Country Club
• Oxford Properties
• GWL Realty Advisors
• Landmark Homes
• Lake at Heritage Point Homeowners Association

Purolator Tackle Hunger
At the Stampeders season home opener Purolator starts the Tackle Hunger season by bringing the Grey Cup to the game. Stampeders fans attending the game were encouraged to bring a donation for the Calgary Food Bank in return for having their picture taken with the Grey Cup and a chance to win a trip for two to next year's Grey Cup game.

Thanks to the generosity of fans attending the game as well as Purolator's staff and clients.

Building Hope Challenge
Thank-you to Elite Homes, Southcentre and all participating teams and sponsors in the Building Hope Challenge!

Elite Homes challenged their peers and partners in the home building industry to consturct a home from non-perishable food items found on the Food Bank's wish list.

The parade of homes created by teams are on display for a week at Southcentre Mall. The public can vote for their favourite in the "Shopper's Choice Award" as well as drop off their own donation of cash or food.

Empty Bowl Benefit
Every year, thousands of Calgarians go without basic food items many of us take for granted: milk for breakfast, a hot bowl of soup for lunch and household staples like rice and pasta. The Calgary Food Bank, U B the Artist and Brookfield Properties are teaming up for a creative solution to this problem. With your support, the 8th Annual Empty Bowl Benefit will put food in bowls that might otherwise go empty.

Celebrity painters (local media personalities, musicians, professional athletes and more) brought their artistic abilities and passion to help feed those in need in Calgary. U B the Artist supplied each of our celebrities with a bisque bowl to paint with a design of their own choosing.

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CANStruction
Canstruction® Calgary is an amazing competition using canned food and other non-perishable items as building blocks. The event brings together multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, designers, architects and builders to create extraordinary structures, which are judged, exhibited to the public and then de-canstructed, with all food going to the Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank.

For more information about CANstruction visit www.canstructioncalgary.com

Coming up & ongoing...

For every $1 donated, the Food Bank
can distribute $4 of food.
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• Pasta Sauce
• Pasta
• Peanut Butter
• Juice (1 litre)
• Canned Tomatos
• Baby Formula with Iron
• Canned Beans in Tomato Sauce
• Cereal
• Canned and Dry Soup
• Baby Food (jars)
• Canned Fish
• Macaroni and Cheese
• Canned Vegetables
• Rice
• Canned Meat
• Canned Fruit
• Processed Cheese Spread (jar)