Route 54 annual Harvest food give-away marks 15 years

By Lynda Powless Editor When it comes to family fun it doesn’t get any better than Route 54’s annual Harvestfest drive-thru food give-away. Kris Hill, owner, marked 15 years of feeding the community over Thanksgiving weekend. With the help of her extended family and friends over 12,000 pounds of food made its way into Six Nations homes. Volunteers filled over 720 re-usable bags and 500 plastic bags with harvest vegetables from beans to squash to onions to apples and more. Once filled the bags were given out to a line of vehicles that stretched down Highway 54 to the Chiefswood Road bridge, all waiting for their goodies. Kris says the event keeps getting “bigger and bigger so we just keep adding more stuff to it as best we can.” The…

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