Another Lower Mainland charity was ripped off by thieves, just as it enters its busiest season of the year.
The Surrey Food Bank should be helping needy families over the holiday season, but they are repairing broken windows and replacing plywood after thieves scaled barbed wire and broke in for the fifth time in just six days.
Food Bank executive director Marilyn Hermann told those waiting outside that their computers had been stolen and there would be delays.
"If we didn't open our gates this morning, there would be 250 families today that would not be eating in our community, We came pretty close to saying maybe we will just shut down so we can get this repaired."
But the best was brought out in some people. Two local retired electricians came forward to volunteer their help.
"Right now we are putting up more light for security whatever we can to make it easier for them," said Al Levert, one of the electricians.
"I've got guys replacing the lighting who are giving up their time, a union who is going to pay for repairs, a company that said [they] will put bars on [our] windows no charge, That's Christmas, That's what its about, But do we have to get to this point?" said Hermann.
One of the visitors to the food bank, who said his name was Chris, said his children would not have been fed if the food bank had closed
"My five kids would have been suffering today, I'm a single dad of five and it's really hard," he said.
With a report from CTV's Lisa Rossington.
