Collected Item: “A baseball writer returns to the Rogers Centre, as a food bank volunteer. The greed in the game is nowhere to be found”
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A baseball writer returns to the Rogers Centre, as a food bank volunteer. The greed in the game is nowhere to be found
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news article
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A news article discussing a journalist's experience switching from reporting on sports to volunteering for Food Banks Canada. the Rogers Centre, home of the Toronto Blue Jays, left largely vacant by the shut down of professional sports, has been turned into a massive warehouse for the accumulation of goods for Canadian food banks which are seeing a shortfall in donations during the pandemic. There is also a shortfall in volunteers which is being filled by Blue Jays' staff and reporters among others.
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business, food bank, food security, volunteering
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https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/06/17/a-baseball-writer-returns-to-the-rogers-centre-as-a-food-bank-volunteer-the-greed-in-the-game-is-nowhere-to-be-found.html
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Laura Armstrong, Toronto Star
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2020-06-17