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Lethbridge organizations looking for bottled water donations

LETHBRIDGE, AB – With a hot summer in the forecast, residents here are being asked to keep the city’s most vulnerable in mind.

A group of Lethbridge organizations including the two local food banks, Streets Alive Mission, Sage Clan, Food Share, and My City Care, have come together for a water drive.

Danielle McIntyre with the Interfaith Food Bank says the hope is to collect at least 10,000 bottles of H20.

“You can donate water to our local food banks and we’ll be partnering with several distribution agencies to get it into the hands of those who need it. Cases of bottled water can be dropped off at either local food bank or any of our drop-off locations which are usually at major grocery stores around the community,” says McIntyre.

McIntyre says having water on hand will make sure people are safe and well cared for during hot, summer weather.

“We are have lot of people who don’t have many opportunities for shade or getting out of the heat. So at least being able to have water available in the community is something we are able to do to make sure everyone is safe and well cared for,” she says.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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