A fundraiser that launched more than a dozen years ago to help support the efforts of Sources White Rock/South Surrey Food Bank reached a milestone this month.
Semiahmoo Shopping Centre's spring edition of its Shredding Event – held April 12 with help from Surrey Firefighters Charitable Society volunteers and Shredwise – raised $7,421.70 in four hours, pushing the total collected over the past 13 years past the $100,000 mark.
"It's been a really great fundraiser for the food bank," the centre's marketing director Jeri Cox said Monday (April 21).
The by-donation event was created to offer people a secure way to dispose of private documents and support the food bank at the same time. In addition to cash donations, 335 lbs of food was collected during the April 12 effort.
Cox noted some 19,000 lbs of paper was shredded that day, saving an estimated 180 mature trees.
