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Donate now to help fill 1,700 Christmas food boxes

Tara Clow December 4, 2024 1:45 pm Last Updated on February 8, 2026 4:10 pm

Donations are needed for the annual Christmas Food Box campaign.

Each year, 1,700 boxes are filled with a Christmas dinner, including a turkey roll, and all the fixings.

“We can only have a maximum of 1700 because that’s the size of the Moncton Coliseum. That’s the maximum amount of boxes that we can get ready,” says Donna Eagle, Community Engagement Coordinator for the Peter McKee Community Food Centre.

Each box contains around $100 worth of food, and it also includes a few food items that will help those in need get through the week.

Boxes will be packed on December 17 at the Moncton Coliseum, and Eagles says around 400 volunteers assist with that. Then on the afternoon of December 18, hundreds more volunteers pull up at the Coliseum and help to deliver those boxes to those who have registered for the Christmas food box program.

Donations to fill those boxes come from community support.

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Tara Clow

Tara Clow is a multi-award-winning news anchor and reporter with more than 30 years of experience at radio stations across Canada. She is a graduate of the Radio and TV Arts program at Toronto Metropolitan University and the Humber College radio broadcasting program. She is based in Moncton and covers stories across Canada. Contact Tara at clow.tara@radioabl.ca.