A local company is organizing a community-wide bottle drive on Saturday in an effort to support the Estevan Salvation Army’s Food Bank.
Sector 1 Construction and Renovations’s employees will be out in the community, picking up bags of empty cans and bottles. The business is asking people to call them or email them, or send them a message on Facebook with their address, and they will pick up the empties between 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
All of the recyclables will be placed in an empty Sector 1 enclosed trailer.
“We’ve been fortunate enough through COVID to be able to stay working,” said Sector 1 owner Sandon Weber. “We’re just trying to figure out a way to try to give back, and we thought this was a good idea.”
Since SARCAN’s recycling depot is currently closed, Weber believes a lot of people have empty bottles piling up that they need to get recycled, so they came up with the idea for the bottle drive.
“I know the … Salvation Army Food Bank really needs help right now, so we thought that would be a good cause to donate all of the money to,” said Weber.
The money raised will be directed to the food bank so they can purchase the groceries they need.
Weber said there’s a real need for the food bank in Estevan right now and that need will only continue to grow the longer people are out of work.
“I think they could really use the help. It made to the most sense to help them.”
Weber said Sector 1 doesn’t have a goal for the fundraiser. He’s never done anything like this before, so he doesn’t know what to expect. If they can raise $1,000, that would be great, but he recognizes that would be a lot of empty bottles and cans.\
Everyone who donates to the bottle drive will be entered to win a $500 gift card for the Home Hardware Building Centre, which is one of Sector 1’s vendors.
To contact Sector 1, call them at 306-421-3557 or email them at [email protected].
