(Phil DeMille at Meadowfields School-Facebook)
Yarmouth’s Coal Shed Music Festival collected approximately $3500 this summer for the Yarmouth Food Bank and local school breakfast programs.
This week cheques are being delivered to some schools.
Festival organizer and founder Phil Demille dropped one off earlier this week at Maple Grove Education Centre.
“We’ve delivered to Maple Grove, we’ve also delivered to Carleton, to Meadowfields and Port Maitland.”
Whejn CJLS News spoke to Demille earlier this morning, he was processing cheques for the school breakfast programs at Central and Plymouth schools.”
He says the need for school breakfast programs is far greater than most of us realize.
“It isn’t necessarily those who come from poorer homes. The fact is people are so busy today, everyone’s in a rush, very often kids take off for school without any food and unfortunately without any money either. I dealt with kids, particularly teens for many, many years and I do know that their productivity is cut in half when they’re hungry. I think that we as a society have a responsibility to take care of our own. It’s all well and good to send large amounts of money to other places and I’m certainly not opposed to that. But I do think that we have to take care of our own in order that they will be strong enough to carry on the torch in the future so that they can help other places.”
DeMille says they also raised a lot of money through their Christmas tree sales.
