The Owen Sound Salvation Army food bank has been told by Kraft Canada that there is something else cooking.
A big announcement is expected ON Monday after the City won the Kraft Assists Food for Families contest that was designed to run another two and a half months.
Alice Wannan at the Salvation Army says it will be big news for the community — but wouldn’t go into further detail.
Kraft Canada officials are surprised at how fast its contest reached its target of 50 thousand dollars.
The program was designed to last until the end of January, but it was over in just eight days.
Owen Sound won the competition with over 22 thousand votes, or nearly half of all the votes cast online.
Because of that, the Owen Sound Salvation Army will collect an extra 10 thousand dollar bonus, for a total of 32 thousand.
Kraft Senior Manager Corporate Scale, Julian Franklin says the cheque won’t likely arrive until after Christmas.
He admits the company has considered topping up some of the other food banks who didn’t do as well, but there was a minimum 250 dollar donation heading to all who participated regardless of the number of votes received.
Franklin says Kraft is reviewing how the contest went and is likely to repeat it next year.
