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Second Section - December 11 1996
TV ministry plans to expand
food banks ah rift stores
In June, Samaritan Food Bank began operating out of Byelis'
garage on the outskirts of Exeter and expanded to include
volunteers who pick up food from businesses and transport it to
approximately 300 recipients. The service is often discovered
through local churches. Food bank donors, who are often
recipients, total at least 100. An estimated $8,000 to $10,000 worth of
retail food is distributed weekly.
"It's literally growing by the day," said Byelis, adding one
volunteer who has converted his home into a food bank centres,,
picks up food for 75 families.
A food bank warehouse and delivery truck was recently donated
by an Exeter area business. ETM is planning a televised food-a-thon
in February as well as an appeal to the community to help cover a
minimum of $500 in monthly food bank expenses.
"We will get there some day," said Byelis. "This should unite the
community at large...The need is awesome."
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open a similar shop in Exetelvalvtiettrfiof a plan to expand thrift stores and food banks throughout Huron County and
neighboring regions.
By Brenda Burke
T -A Reporter
HURON COUNTY - If Emmanuel Television Ministries has its
way, a new thrift shop will soon open its doors in Exeter. It's part
of ETM's plan to place Samaritan thrift stores and food banks
across Huron County and neighboring regions in an effort to
become self-sustaining.
Since the ministry opened its first thrift shop in Clinton last
June, it is exploring additional locations and placing Exeter next on
the list.
"We're looking for a prime location in Exeter," said ETM Chief
Executive Officer Daniel Byelis. "We may be talking to local
officials...We would like to establish something certainly by ,
spring."
Although Byelis admits the thrift business is not very profitable,
he hopes to offset costs by opening facilities in major centres such
as Goderich, Seaforth,,Mitchell and Wingham.
"We hope to eventually have a chain of thrift stores...and
locations of food banks," he said, adding ETM's goals include
opening 12 to 15 centres within the next few years.
Byelis sees thrift and food bank services as connected entities.
"The thrift can pay the bills and sustain itself and provide a roof
for (food banks)," he explained, citing Clinton's Samaritan thrift
shop as an example, since it doubles as a food bank outlet.
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