Carl DeLine

As Alberta’s economy faltered in 1986 and the jobless ranks swelled at an alarming rate, Calgary’s Inter-Faith Food Bank was there, helping to feed Calgarians who might otherwise have gone hungry. The two men who were most responsible for responding to this urgent need were Carl DeLine, manager of the food bank, and Louis Grenier, […]

Community Health Minister Jim Dinning exhorted food industry operators Monday to give all their waste product to the Inter-Faith Food Bank or the Salvation Army. Dinning, who represents the new Calgary Shaw riding, made the plea after touring the food bank’s new warehouse at 6408 1A St., near the Chinook LRT Station. “I am concerned […]

A Calgary food bank has tossed a lifeline to the Salvation Army to help its sister charity stave off a food crisis. Carl DeLine, community liaison director for the Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank, said Sunday that truckloads of food are being delivered to the Army’s foundering food bank on 17th Avenue SE. “When we’ve been […]

Last month, the Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank received 16,201 loaves of surplus bread for distribution to the needy. Its directors believe that if they had been able to tap all sources of surplus bread in the city, this amount could easily have been doubled. Between the farm and the table as much as 25 percent […]

After two years in an old Safeway building downtown, the Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank is moving to its new home this week. With more than 1,485 square metres of office and warehouse space at its new location at 6408 1A St. SW, the food bank will now be better equipped to handle the growing number […]

Nine hogs raised and fattened on left-over bread from the Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank are going to turn up as hamburgers for the city’s needy next week. This ingenious bread-to-pork-to-beef food conversion project paid its first handsome dividends Monday. Volunteer workers at the Teen Challenge farm near Pridis, who raised the nine animals during the […]

The Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank has found a new home. Food bank staff and clients will say goodbye to the old building, a decrepit grocery store on the east end of downtown, at the end of the month. “We’ll be starting operations in our new location on Dec. 1,” bank spokesman Carl DeLine said Thursday. […]

Thanks to a group of local hospitality students, the city’s needy will soon be treated with the same speed and care as the guests of a major hotel. The students in the hotel management program at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology have donated a computer system to the food bank that will help it […]

A spokesman for the Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank has warned Calgarians collecting for the poor to obtain proper identification, following an incident Tuesday night in which a woman may have falsely solicited food and money. Carl DeLine said he received a phone call from a woman who said she was visited by a female looking […]