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The Seaforth Fire Hall Open House
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Price, 3, and Mary Verberne, a teacher from St. James Catholic School. Phillips showed the
youngsters the air mask that firemen use in the field.
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Toronto Blue Jays:
A Seaforth dairy farmer is
donating 100 litres of milk
to food banks for every
playoff homer the team hits
Debora Van Brenk
This is for Edwin En-'cow'-
nacion and Jose'Bull'-tista.
The whole 'Moo" Jays ball
team, really.
Ok, OK, enough already.
Or not nearly enough, if
you're Derek Van Dieten, a
Seaforth dairy farmer who
is donating 100 litres of
milk to food banks for every
home run the Toronto Blue
Jays hit during the
postseason.
So far, in four playoff
games — the wild -card game
and a three -game division
series against Texas — the
Jays have hit nine out of the
park.
That makes 900 litres more
than Van Dieten would ordi-
narily donate.
"Some days when you get
your head down and you're
going some grunt work, you
come up with some crazy
ideas," Van Dieten says.
And one of those ideas
was to expand the family's
generosity based on the Jay's
slugging power.
He first ran his home -run
dairy derby last fall, when
the Jays made it as far as
the American League
championship series before
losing to the Kansas City
Royals.
On those rare days when
work on the farm isn't call-
ing, he'll sit on the back
porch where the TV is and
catch a few innings of Cana-
da's ball team.
"It's a whole lot more fun
to be a fan when they're win-
ning," he says.
He tweeted his plans to
the Jays' organization a week
ago, but hasn't otherwise
been in touch.
"They're probably bom-
barded with enough
tweets that they don't
have time to bother with
tweets from a milk farmer
from Seaforth," Van Dieten
says.
He hopes his lead-off
pledge rallies others to
donate, or to donate more.
For Van Dieten and his
family, it's more than a
postseason commitment.
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"We've always donated to
food banks and local chari-
ties. That's how we were
raised: If you have extra,
you give."
From donating during
blood drives to helping
neighbours in need, it's
something small-town
Ontario excels at. "It's kind
of woven into us growing
up."
And, he said, these dona-
tions are a team effort any-
how: Dairy farmers, milk
transporters and milk pro-
cessors all make sure
Ontario food banks have
milk to distribute.
Collectively, they give
almost one million litres of
milk each year, said Carolyn
Stewart, executive director of
the Ontario Association of
Food Banks.
Fresh food makes up more
than 50 per cent of all food
donations and includes beef,
pork, chicken and fresh fruit
and vegetables, she said.
"It's always great to see
local farmers supply local
food."
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