Edmonton Food Bank looking for donations a week before Christmas

With just a couple weeks until the end of the year, Edmonton Food Bank executive director Marjorie Bencz is confident that Edmontonians will help the food bank meet its 2017 goals.
This year, the food bank aimed to raise 325,000 kilograms of food and  $1,750,000 to support people in need.
As of Friday, the food bank had raised 61 per cent of its food goal and more than half of its monetary goal.
“We are getting close to Christmas but a lot happens over the next few days,” s