MONTREAL – Staff at the N.D.G. Food Depot are scrambling to empty their building this week after they say they owners reneged on a promise to allow them to stay in their current location until the end of June.
Boxes of food are being moved this afternoon to two churches where the depot has storage facilities. Until it finds a permanent home, the depot will move its emergency food program to St. Philip’s Church on Sherbrooke St. West starting April 15.
About 700 families use the service each week. The emergency food program will operate as usual today and Thursday. Staff say the owners want them out by March 31, when the lease is up.
When contacted by The Gazette, the owner denied that he had agreed to let the depot continue operating at the corner of de Maisonneuve Blvd. and Oxford Ave. until the end of June.
“I am getting old,” explained 84-year-old Chen Tsiau Hum, on why he is selling the building. “I didn’t tell them that.”
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