Food literacy encompasses more than just knowing what is on your plate. It also includes an understanding of where your food comes from, growing food and food preparation. Listowel’s Salvation Army Community and Family Services takes those concepts to heart with its commitment to lessening food insecurity while growing the knowledge of food literacy. “Students,  […]

The Salvation Army Suncoast Citadel in Goderich held its annual backpack program to help families with school supplies for their children as they head back to the classroom. Contributions of school supplies and monetary donations supported the distribution of backpacks throughout Huron County. This year, requests increased by over 40 per cent and generous donations  […]

Heather Atkins still remembers the exact date when The Salvation Army entered her life. On January 17, 1973, she was living in Toronto with her husband and five children in a rented apartment. Another tenant fell asleep while smoking at 2 a.m. and the resulting fire burned down the shared house. The family was now  […]

Summer’s end means harvest time for not only farmers but keepers of the community garden in Belleville. The 24 raised beds at The Salvation Army Belleville Citadel yielded a bounty of fresh vegetables to help lessen food insecurity in the community. Community Development Council of Quinte (CDC-Q) runs the free Community Garden program in partnership  […]

Residents of Maple Manor Retirement Residence in Belleville were recently treated to a bouquet of fresh cut flowers to brighten up their rooms, compliments of The Salvation Army Belleville and Dahlia May Flower Farm in nearby Trenton. Filmmakers Aaron and Angela Bell from Lot48 Film Company captured the moment the flowers were delivered in this  […]

Pepito’s Convenience owner Chris Probst wanted to give back to the town of Fenelon Falls, so in May he called Salvation Army Corps Officer Jeff Robertson asking for a collection box for the store counter. Since then, Probst has been matching customer’s donations, up to $150 each month that will go towards supporting The Salvation  […]

In many locations across Canada, The Salvation Army is stuffing backpacks with school supplies to ensure that every elementary and high-school student is empowered to succeed, and struggling families have one less thing to worry about. “It’s so nice to have a new backpack and school supplies,“ says Jennifer, Grade 10. “It makes me feel  […]

The Salvation Army is looking after residents and emergency services members in the community of Wheatley, following a gas explosion in the town last Thursday. Captain Stephen Holland of The Salvation Army Chatham-Kent Ministries said many of the affected families are staying at a local hotel or with relatives as no one is being allowed  […]

Recently, Yes TV profiled The Salvation Army’s Ontario Distribution Centre in North York and the Scarborough Citadel to showcase to its viewers the logistics behind warehousing and shipping donated food and the important role of community food banks. Staff at the Ontario Distribution Centre sort, pack and ship food and personal care items to 100  […]

At a former Salvation Army church on Broadview Avenue in Toronto, participants in The Salvation Army’s Gateway Linens and Disposal Services program work amid the whirr and rumble of industrial washing machines and dryers. Gateway Linens started in 2007 when the former director of the Gateway Shelter in Toronto, Dion Oxford, overheard a conversation with  […]