Digby's food bank will need a new home this spring.
The province is currently reworking the design for a new collaborative clinic to be built where the old nurses' residence currently stands on West Street on the south western side of Digby General Hospital.
The food bank and its 27 volunteers use most of the basement of the nurses' residence-there's a bagging room, a waiting room, a screening room and office, and couple of small storage rooms crammed with cans of soup, vegetables and cheese and macaroni dinner.
The food bank does not pay rent, lights or heat in their current location.
Hubert D'Entremont, site manager at DGS, says pre-demolition work will "more than likely" begin in the nurse's residence in March.
For example he says the building is connected to the hospital's heating and electricity systems and those would have to be disconnected before the building is torn down.
Roger Tibbetts, president of the Digby food bank told The Courier in early January that he wasn't worried yet.
Tibbetts said Digby is one of the better-off food banks in the province due in thanks to the generosity of the community here.
For example, Reverend Don Robertson and Peter Dickie of the Digby Baptist Church stopped by after Christmas to drop off a donation of $1175.
Tibbetts is scheduled to make a presentation before the Digby town council's committee of the whole on Monday, Feb. 20.
Digby's food bank helps approximately 50 households a week; that's 150 households or 350 people every month. The week before Christmas they helped 67 households, a record for Digby.
They are open three Wednesdays a month but each client can only come twice month.
jriley@digbycourier.ca
