The number of people with full-time jobs turning to the Wood Buffalo Food Bank has more than tripled from last year, according to executive director Tiffany Stagg, while the number of overall clients is up 23 per cent. About 470 clients as of September were raising children and 135 clients came from multigenerational households. Article content

“The spring food drive would hold us to fall and the fall food drive would hold us to spring. It’s not looking like that anymore, we might have to have a food drive every quarter,” Stagg said in a Monday interview. “Our shelves in January are going to be bare again.” Article content

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The food bank had 265 clients in October with full-time jobs. That number was 77 people during the same period last year. Unempl

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