Canada’s First Grocery Store Where Food is FREE Opens in Saskatchewan

In Saskatchewan, Canada’s first free grocery store is set to open as a flourishing food bank continues to look for ways to support the community.

Located at 1881 Broad St. in Regina, the Food Hub will be stocked like any old grocery store, and unlike similar projects that operate out of churches or community centers, it will feature a produce section, floor-to-ceiling display fridges, and be open all week.

The Regina Food Bank believes that allowing people who rely on the food bank for food security to fill out a cart just like a normal grocery store gives back agency, and may actually help feed more people by reducing waste.

“None of us fit in a box, but that’s what we give our clients today,” Regina Food Bank vice-president David Froh told CBC News. “When you give choices, you give not just dignity, but actually, we figure we can feed about 25% more people.”

One client explained that getting handed a crate of canned/boxed goods put together in a hurry based on what was in stock rarely provides a selection that accounts for things like dietary restrictions, allergies, proper nutrition, or even just synergistic flavors between the foods.

“Normally I barter with my neighbors and we swap back and forth, so it kind of works out that way. But a lot of people don’t do that,” said food bank client Jon White. “So there’s a lot of stuff that just goes to waste.”

The Regina Food Bank doesn’t just support the unhoused or others in dire need of aid; 18% of its clients work full-time, and 2,000 students receive school snacks and meals through their work. Part of their overall objectives with the Food Hub is to reduce societal stigma against using a food bank.

Food banks do not receive government subsidies, so Froh and his colleagues had to look for private donations to raise the CAD$3.7 million they needed to get the Food Hub off the ground. Some of this came from piggy bank-sized gifts, but they also received a CAD$1 million donation from The Mosaic Company.

Much of the stock is produced, grown, or processed in Saskatchewan—part of Regina Food Bank’s goal to improve the sustainability and nutritional quality of the food their clients rely on.

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North Carolina Sports Come Together to Support Victims of ‘Unprecedented’ Hurricane Helene

Companies and organizations are descending on affected communities in North Carolina with donations and volunteers as they begin to dig themselves out of a 100-year storm.

Hurricane Helene “wiped out whole communities” according to Governor Roy Cooper, leaving over 200,000 people without power and causing exceptional destruction even far inland from the Atlantic.

The response, particularly from the North Carolina sporting world has been inspiring and robust.

David Tepper, the owner of the Carolina Panthers and the Charlotte FC soccer team, has made a $3 million donation in concert with his wife through their charitable foundation to Helene relief efforts.

The David and Nicole Tepper Foundation’s contribution will focus on providing food and other essentials through community food banks and service agencies in the Carolinas.

“The David & Nicole Tepper Foundation, Carolina Panthers, and Charlotte FC stand alongside all those who have been affected by Hurricane Helene and the devastation it has wrought across the southeast, and particularly in our backyard throughout the Carolinas,” said David and Nicole Tepper said in a release.

“This is our home and we are committed to supporting relief efforts throughout the region by providing critical resources and aiding the efforts of our heroic first responders,” the Teppers said. “The impact on our community has been severe, but Carolinians are resilient and courageous, and together, we will rebuild and recover.”

The NFL at large followed the Tepper foundation’s lead, with clubs and ownership groups from the Atlanta Falcons, Houston Texans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the NFL Foundation itself, together donating another $5 million.

“Our hearts go out to all of those impacted by Hurricane Helene, and the NFL is committed to doing our part to help the affected communities recover,” said NFL Vice President of Philanthropy and Executive Director of the NFL Foundation Alexia Gallagher.

Three NASCAR entities, including Driver Greg Biffle, Joe Gibbs Racing team, and Hendrick Motorsports have all been using privately owned helicopters to carry supplies out to some of the most rural communities affected by the storm.

Biffle has been delivering pallets of donated Starlink hubs in his helicopter, as telecommunications are down across large parts of the state

The rural town of Banner Elk personally thanked Joe Gibbs Racing for using a helicopter to transport donated supplies there, as one of the main roads to the town passed over a bridge that was blown away by the flooding.

Meanwhile, a contributing editor for Road & Track posted an image of helicopter flight paths on X. The copters belonged to the three entities mentioned above going back and forth to western North Carolina where damage has been particularly bad.

Support has been shown from beyond the sporting world as well, with Lowes and Home Depot contributing $2 million each through a variety of support operations.

This week, Lowe’s stores will host relief events to distribute cleanup supplies in more than 25 communities across the affected regions. The company is also working closely with first responders to distribute relief supplies and donate much-needed products, like water, chainsaws, and generators, a statement said.

Home Depot’s donations will go to the American Red Cross, World Central Kitchen, Convoy of Hope, Team Rubicon, and Operation Blessing—all organizations currently on the ground assisting affected communities.

Team Depot, the volunteer force of the home improvement brand, is also working to help clean up in local communities in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia, including The Home Depot’s hometown of Atlanta. Money will also go to furnishing “tool banks” with the equipment needed to support cleanup and rebuilding efforts.

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Klimt Painting of an African Prince Lost for Nearly 100 Years Goes on Show in Austria

A portrait of a stately West African leader painted by famed Austrian artist Gustav Klimt has reappeared in public after being lost before World War II.

Nearly a hundred years have passed since it was last seen, and is now exhibited at Wienerroither & Kohlbacher Gallery in Vienna, with a price tag of €15 million.

The portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona—a representative of the Ga people in West Africa, comprising parts of modern-day Ghana, was painted by Klimt in 1897, sold by the artist’s estate in 1923, and lost by 1938.

An art historian who had been searching for the work for 2 decades verified its authenticity for W&K Galleries with the help of a well-faded stamp on the back of the canvas. A wealthy Austrian Jewish family who had converted Klimt’s studio into a villa acquired the painting in 1928 for an exhibition.

That was the last time and place it was seen, for by 1938, the Klein family had abandoned their property and fled the growing anti-semitism in their homeland to Monaco.

“The composition and painterly execution point to Klimt’s turn towards decorative elements, which were to characterize his later work, and are directly linked to his pioneering portraits of the following years,” said Alfred Weidinger, who authenticated the work, in press materials.

Prince Dowuona traveled to Vienna for a late-colonial sing-and-dance called the Völkerschau which exhibited ethnographic displays from colonized people around the world at an urban zoo. This is where a friend of Klimt’s first found the stately African leader, who was one of 120 Ga people who traveled via steamship to Austria for the Völkerschau, according to Art Net.

It’s believed that both Klimt and his friend Matsch painted Dowuona, but being that this work remained unsigned and in Europe, the client, whoever it was, probably selected the one painted by Matsch.

Klimt’s corpus includes many that have fetched 8-figure sums at auction houses, and one that sold for $108 million of an unknown woman holding a fan. There is currently no plan to auction this work.

@jesusredeemedme2425  Indian State Government offers $1 Million to  Anyone who can decipher the Ancient Script of the Harappan Civilisation

Good news for all puzzle lovers and codebreakers! The Chief Minister of an Indian State, has put up a whopping $1 million bounty for anyone who can crack the mysterious script of the Indus Valley Civilization/ Harappan Civilisation—because apparently, 5,500 years is long enough to leave a message on ‘read.’ Scholars have been scratching their heads over the ancient script for decades but modern AI experts and IT whizzes are now flooding the government with claims that they’ve cracked the code (spoiler: scholars remain skeptical) With only about 68 symbols and the longest inscription barely 34 characters the Harappan script is proving to be the ultimate unsolved crossword puzzle. Will AI succeed where humans have failed or will this mystery stay locked tighter than a pharaoh’s tomb? Either way, if you know a history loving tech geek, now’s the time to tell them they could become a millionaire—just by reading really, really old pottery!
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