City staff recommend giving $450K to new community food hub

By Clint Fleury, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, TBnewswatch.com THUNDER BAY – Our Kids Count could be getting $450,000 from the city to help establish a new community food hub. City administration is supporting the funding request, which would go towards buying the former Circle K building at the corner of Simpson and McKenzie Streets. Jackie Knough, executive director of Our Kids Count, told Newswatch the facility would be a home for its food security program. “We’ve been doing a lot around food security, and we’re just noticing more and more the need is continuing to increase. We haven’t been able to meet everyone’s needs. When we do a community breakfast, the lineups are throughout the door. We have over 200 people, and so this new space will allow people to…

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