Candy Cane Lane soon to hit million-pound food milestone

EDMONTON – An Edmonton Food Bank charity drive is about to hit a huge milestone.

This year, Candy Cane Lane is expected to reach one million pounds of all-time food donations. Since starting two decades ago, Candy Cane Lane, working with Edmonton’s Food Bank, has donated just over 995,000 total pounds of food.

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This year is expected to push the campaign over the one-million pound mark.

The 2015 Candy Cane Lane campaign will officially be launched on Friday. This year, the Food Bank hopes to raise $1.4 million and 275,000 kilograms of food through Candy Cane Lane.

READ MORE: Number of people using Edmonton Food Bank jumps by 14%

This year’s campaign comes as an increasing number of Albertans find themselves needing to use food banks. In September, the Food Bank’s annual report said the organization saw a 14 per cent rise in people needing their services.

In the 18 months before the report was released, between 15,000 and 16,000 were using the Food Bank each month.