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13 | O akville B eaver | T hursday,A pril 7,2022 insidehalton.com Advertorial LOCALCHICKENWING CHAIN MIRRORS DELIVERY FEE TO CURRENT GAS PRICES The day starts like any other day, the sun is shining, you're driving along Upper Middle listening to your favourite mixtape, sunglasses on, thinking about that awesome thing you did back in highschool. Times are good, you're smiling without a care in the world, it doesn't get much better than this. Suddenly, the dreaded "Low Fuel" icon flashes across your dashboard, and you immediately ask yourself "why?" It feels like it popped up just yesterday? You grip the steering wheel a little tighter, start to drive a little slower, a nervous sweat begins as you realize there is no avoiding it, you need a fill up. Driving towards the station, you see the big sign peer around the corner, displaying those rising gas prices boldly in the rigid red font. Reluctantly you pull into the station, put the nozzle into your gas tank and watch those numbers climb like you've never seen before. Does this sound familiar? Have you felt the pain at the pump? WingsUp! is trying to help alleviate that pain and make delivery more affordable. Every Monday, the price for a litre of gas at a local station will replace the delivery fee at WingsUp! for that week. WingsUp! specializes in delivery of fresh, never frozen, hand breaded, made to order chicken wings, boneless bites and sandwiches. Treat yourself to the best wings in Oakville from the comfort of your own home. The gas price for the week will be announced on Monday mornings on their website, Facebook and Instagram. It will also appear on the online ordering page at checkout. There are 2 locations in Oakville. 2690 Westoak Trails Boulevard on the corner of Westoak Trails and Postmaster, & 2423 Trafalgar Road on the corner of Trafalgar and Dundas Street East. Order now to get your delivery for the price of 1 litre of gas. Exclusively available through www.wingsup.com or by calling your local location. Westoak Trails: (289) 815-1819 Trafalgar Road: (905) 257-7878 Stay at home and let WingsUp! do the driving for you. We're Open for Good Friday and Easter! You'll enjoy our casual, laid-back ambiance, homemade cooking, and fantastic service Easter Weekend Hours: Good Friday: 11 - 8:30, Sat.: 8:30 - 8:30, Sun.: 8:30 - 3:00, Closed Easter Monday 2420 Lakeshore Rd W., Oakville (905) 827-4851 elspero.ca With COVID-19 restric- tions being lifted and more people heading back to work, you would think the food bank services would be in less demand. That's not the case, says Averil Wiley. The Oakville Fare Share director says the food bank has more than 500 clients each month, up from approxi- mately 470 last year. "We're moving food out at a very rapid pace," Wiley said. That's what makes this year's Easter food drive, which runs April 2 to 17, particularly important. Wiley said donations tend to tail off through the sum- mer and April to Septem- ber represents the longest period between the year's three major food drives (Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas). "Usually by July, Au- gust, the shelves are looking a little bare and that's when we tend to pur- chase more food," Wiley said. That also makes the need for financial dona- tions, which are also used to purchase fresh fruit and vegetables, fish, meat, eggs, cheese and milk. Among the needed items are canned food (meat, fruit, peas, baked beans, tomatoes, salmon, sardines and tuna, mush- room soup), dry goods (rice, instant coffee, pasta/ rice side dishes, crackers, jam, breakfast cereal, tea, toiletries), and kids' snacks (nut-free cereal bards, pud- ding/fruit cups). "Oakville has always been wildly generous," Wi- ley said. "The food just pours in." And unfortunately, the need has never been great- er. Food donations can be dropped at Oakville Fare Share, 1240 Speers Rd., Unit 6, at any Oakville fire station and most grocery stores in Oakville. The Knights of Colum- bus are also accepting do- nations Monday-Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at 635 Fourth Line, Unit 50. FARE SHARE KICKS OFF EASTER FOOD DRIVE HERB GARBUTT hgarbutt@metroland.com NEWS Oakville Fare Share kicks off its annual Easter food drive April 2. Metroland file photo Construction has start- ed on a $1.4-million expan- sion of the Salvation Army Halton Lighthouse Shelter in Oakville. The project, which is be- ing undertaken at 750 Red- wood Square, is expected to provide additional support to individuals experienc- ing homelessness by in- creasing the number of emergency shelter beds to 40 with an additional 270 square metres of space for eight new rooms. "This ad- dition to the Halton Light- house Shelter provides a much-needed roof over the heads of people who are ex- periencing homelessness and in need of hope, sup- port and compassion," said James Moulton, executive director of The Salvation Army Hamilton, Halton and Brant Housing and Support Services. "We are incredibly thankful to our generous funders, donors and com- munity partners who made this expansion possible at a time when demand for emergency shelter is on the increase." Moulton said the expan- sion received funding from The Salvation Army, Cana- da and Bermuda Territory, the Government of Ontario and a generous anony- mous donor who provided $500,000 toward this pro- ject. Completion of the Hal- ton Lighthouse Shelter project is expected in spring or early summer 2022. Moulton noted that in 2021, the Halton Light- house Shelter provided ac- commodation to 492 indi- viduals as well as 23,000 meals. A total of 156 hours of chaplaincy was also pro- vided to 200 individuals. CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY ON SHELTER EXPANSION