Waste not, want not.

After cancelled classes at Okanagan College resulted in a vast amount of unused ingredients for the culinary arts program, instructors gathered as much as they could and delivered it to the Central Okanagan Community Food Bank.

Instructors Kelsey Oudendag and Ross Derrick, who is also a chef at local restaurant Cod Fathers, loaded dairy products, vegetables and fruit onto pallets for transport.

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As restaurants, hotels, and casinos throughout the Okanagan Valley and province find themselves in the same situation, Okanagan College said many local businesses have seized the opportunity to do something with food that would otherwise spoil.

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The Central Okanagan Community Foodbank is still accepting donations from the public at their location at 2310 Enterprise Way.

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