FOG BLOG MARITIME CHRISTMAS STORIES LOG: FEED A FAMILY , FREDERICTON, HARBOUR LIGHTS , SAINT JOHN:

CBC's Feed A Family asked New Brunswickers for their favourite family recipes.....GENEROSITY KNOWS NO BOUNDS HERE....THEY SURPASSED THEIR GOAL THIS YEAR!.......MORE THAN $ 55,OOO. WAS RAISED SO FAR FOR THE FOOD BANK THERE.....Every year, Information Morning Fredericton shines a light on the Feed a Family campaign, raising donations for food banks in Fredericton, Oromocto, Woodstock and beyond.

The goal of the 2021 campaign is to support 2,570 families in the community who rely on the food bank.

On top of the donation campaign, the show put a question to the audience this year: How do you feed your family?

The morning show asked audiences to think about the special recipes in their family that tell a story. The response was a mixture of childhood memories, trial-and-error experimentation and mouth-watering dishes.

Over the course of the three-week campaign, host Jeanne Armstrong spoke to audience members about everything from homemade German egg nog to Syrian eggplant casserole. CBC NB has compiled all of the collected recipes into a pdf below.

Here are excerpts of some of the stories that stood out..........NOW IN SAINT JOHN AND THE HARBOUR LIGHTS CAMPAIGN..........SO FAR THE HARBOUR LIGHTS CAMPAIGN HAS RAISED OVER $ 170,000. DOLLARS FOR FOOD BANKS ALL OVER SOUTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK INCLUDING HERE IN SAINT JOHN!........The mission of The Harbour Lights Campaign Inc. is to coordinate fundraising for 15 food banks in Southwestern New Brunswick, Canada on an annual basis and to disperse the funds raised to those food banks. The Campaign primarily occurs during the month of December each year via a founding partnership of CBC Radio One in Saint John and Port Saint John, and with supporting partner Saint John Energy and a Board of Directors with ties to the community and the food banks.

While the fundraising of this campaign occurs during the holiday period each year, food banks have the greatest needs outside the holiday period when people do not traditionally think of giving. For this reason, the campaign continues to receive funds into the New Year and the funds raised are dispersed at the end of January. The funds raised through Harbour Lights have become a staple for the food banks and see them through the hard winter months when their traditional donation streams are greatly reduced but their need is greatest.

Today, a few years into its third decade, the Harbour Lights Campaign continues to be a symbol of the holiday spirit and the generosity of the people of southwestern New Brunswick.