Over 650 less fortunate families and seniors throughout Delta received hampers of food for the holiday season from schools, other organizations and individuals, and through sponsors such as the Rotary Club of Ladner, which donates $1,000 a year. Organized by Deltassist for the past 30 years, the program relies on hundreds of volunteers to collect food from the community – such as breakfast cereals, tinned ham and chicken, juice, tinned hearty meals (stew), peanut butter, rice, pasta sauce, and hot chocolate -- sort it, box it and allocate to each family then load the vehicles of delivery volunteers, including Ladner Rotarians. photo: a grateful Delta resident receives two boxes full of food for the Christmas season
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| Long line of vehicles awaits hamper pick ups | Paridon Horticulture on 104th St., Delta, provides its warehouse facilities for preparing and storing the hampers |
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Jim Burnett, is one of the drivers, with Ladner Rotarians, Chu Wu, left, and family, (back seat) Lloyd Bernabe and Ruby Wu | Ladner Rotarian Patricia Sibley and daughter, Jennifer |
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| Ladner Rotary President Ulf Ottho and Arthur Birk | Part way through the hampers in one warehouse |
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| More hampers in warehouse two | Jim Burnett(left), who has been involved in the Christmas hampers program for 18 years, supervises loading of his truck |
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Ruby and Chu Wu preparing to deliver food boxes to the door of a family | Lloyd Bernabe, son-in-law of Mike and Kathy Storey, follows Chu Wu with food boxes for another family |
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| Deliveries successfully completed for Team Burnett: (l to r) Jim Burnett, Lloyd Bernabe, Ruby Wu, Chu Wu, Peter Roaf | |
