Local chefs are helping celebrate the Children’s Foundation Food and Friends program with a breakfast on June 8 in Old Quebec Street mall here.
Old Quebec Street has donated the space, and chefs are giving their time and supplies free of charge so that all funds raised will benefit local student nutrition programs.
Food and Friends believe that no child should go to school hungry. Where programs are available, all students are welcomed; the group has served over 12,000 students a healthy meal each week.
Participating chefs include chef Jan Cooper-Webb from Orchard House Gourmet, Kevin McKitrick from Platters, Chef Shawn Monaghan from Ariss Valley and Edible Arrangements. Get Juiced is supplying freshly squeezed orange juice. Guests will taste French-themed food and can take part in a raffle.
“Paris in Spring,” a breakfast event for Food and Friends, is happening June 8 from 7:30 to 8:30am.
Tickets can be purchased for $40 online at www.childrensfoundation.org or by contacting Lindsay@childrensfoundation.org.
Food and Friends supports 80 student nutrition program sites within Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph. In the 2009-10 school year over $350,000 was distributed to these programs.
