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Husky Help the Hungry Week
May 31-June 6 is Husky Help the Hungry Week.

Husky Energy and the Calgary Food Bank, with the support of Telus, Western Canada High School, Calgary Police Services and the Calgary Area Girl Guides, are reminded Calgarians that hunger does not take a holiday. This year marked the 13th annual “Help the Hungry Week” which is now in its second year of support by Husky Energy.

Through activities run by employees of Husky Energy and students at Western Canada High School, and by the generosity of Calgarians during the Hunger Heroes Food Drive on June 5th, more than $150,000 was raised in food and funds for the Calgary Food Bank.

Throughout the week members of Calgary’s media and social media community will participated in a communal blog experiment called “A Week in Their Kitchen”. Participants experienced life as one of the more than 140,000 Calgarians who will use the Calgary Food Bank this year. They visited the Food Bank to get an Emergency Food Hamper and lived off only its contents for the entire week. They blogged daily about their experiences at www.weekintheirkitchen.wordpress.com.

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 10th 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

For every $1 donated, the Food Bank can distribute $4 of food.
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• Juice (1 litre)
• Baby Formula with Iron
• Pasta
• Pasta Sauce
• Canned Tomatos
• Peanut Butter
• 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)