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12 - The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday December 13, 2008 www.oakvillebeaver.com ReFresh Foods goal is to deliver an end to hunger By Melanie Cummings SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER Waste not because there's want. In more ways than one, ReFresh Foods is relieving businesses of excess food by delivering it to those who need it most. And they're doing it in an environmentally friendly way, with a fuel-efficient hybrid truck. Tuesday saw the launch of an innovative collection and redistribution program created by the well-established registered charity Food for Life and its latest program creation called ReFresh Foods. Fresh food such as fruit, vegetables, fish/meat and dairy is a rare treat for people living on a low income. So ReFresh Foods steps in to redistribute surplus fresh and frozen food from restaurants, food makers, farmers, grocery stores, bakeries and corporate suppliers to any or all of the nine food banks, and front-line service agencies in Milton, Burlington, Oakville and Halton Hills. To do that, the Sprott Foundation researched, ordered then donated a hybrid truck to do the job. The 100 supporters who attended Tuesday's kick-off event held at Ippolito Foods on North Service Road, Burlington, got an up-close look at the new refrigerated, bright neon green and white Canadian-built truck that will pick up and drop off seven days a week throughout the region. Those organizations, including school-based snack and breakfast programs that want to access the supply, need only to register with ReFresh. "Our goal is to reduce hunger in Halton," said the program's director Marcus Logan. More than 28,000 Halton residents live below the poverty line and one out of every 13 are children. According to a 2007 study of Halton's food bank system, it's estimated there are 31,000 people (11,000 of them children) who lack the financial resources to purchase a nutritionally adequate diet. The same study estimated that these numbers could increase by three per cent per year. Food banks, which rely primarily on public donations and volunteers to run them, manage to serve 15,000 people yearly. According to ReFresh, local food banks, which up until now have typically been stocked with canned and non-perishable packaged foods, are only able to fill 10 per cent of their client's grocery needs. Adding fresh and frozen groceries at local foodbanks and frontline social service agencies is a welcome nutritional addition to people who LIESA KORTMANN / OAKVILLE BEAVER REFRESHING DELIVERY: At the unveiling of a new hybrid truck at Ippolito Fruit and Produce for ReFresh Foods, which distributes surplus perishable foods to the needy, were (l-r) Blair Richardson, Chair Food for Life Canada, Juliana Sprott, The Sprott Foundation and Marcus Logan, ReFresh program director. subsist on minimal amount of sustenance. ReFresh taps into available sources of food from 90 food producers and distributors in the region in a systematic, logistical way, said Logan. Often restaurants, supermarkets, bakeries, food manufacturers, processors and farmers have excess supplies of food in their stock that is either discontinued, mislabeled, surplus, or close to the expiry date. By taking such unwanted items out of their warehouses -- for free and seven days a week, no less -- the ReFresh program lowers a company's storage and disposal costs and eases their logistical planning. This redistribution set up is not a made-inHalton solution, but rather one that has been "borrowed" from similar prototypes used in Ottawa, Northumberland and Waterloo, said Logan. As word spreads other communities closer to home are tapping into the ReFresh experience, in the hopes offering a similar program, added Logan. Beaver Be aver d Media Group Ltd. member of Metrolan www N INSIDE! 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