After Saturday’s Porch Pickup, local food bank Newark Neighbours is still short on food for annual Thanksgiving Hampers. 

“We’re still in need of everything: cranberry sauce, pineapple, apple sauce, canned veg, apple juice, cranberry juice, anything,” volunteer Cindy Grant said. 

Porch pickup, which involves volunteers driving to homes across Niagara-on-the-Lake to pick up donations, usually gathers around 100 to 120 volunteers, Grant said. 

“We only had 50 this time.”

The food drive, which was scheduled to run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., was wrapped up within two hours.

The donations gathered will be put to use for Thanksgiving hampers, which the organization sends out to clients in need on October 10. 

This year, 110 hampers will be sent out. 

“We need everything ready by the eighth or ninth,” Grant said. 

Newark Neighbours is in huge need of donations for the hampers and Grant encourages those who can help to drop off donations to their foodbank location at 1534 Niagara Stone Rd. 

A full list of items needed by the bank is available at newarkneighbours.ca.