“CANstruction” to benefit local food banks

LETHBRIDGE – Work crews have taken over the Centre Village Mall. But this job site is about learning, and about feeding the less-fortunate in Lethbridge.

Ten teams, from local industries and area high schools, are taking part in CANstruction, building structures out of canned food. Work began Thursday morning, Mar. 1, and the completed structures will be on display until Mar. 28.

“Lethbridge CANstruction is an event that encourages creativity, art, structure, teamwork, and all kinds of other talents that people need to put together these magnificent structures, and see the less-fortunate fed,” board chair Douglas Bergen said. After the structures are taken down, the food will be donated to the Lethbridge Food Bank, Interfaith Food Bank Society, and Lethbridge College Food Bank.

The four junior teams taking part are from Winston Churchill High School, Lomond School, Magrath High School, and Calvin Christian School in Coalhurt. Other teams are representing Save-On-Foods, Associated Engineering, Goss Architectural Design Group, Lethbridge College, and Centre Village Mall.