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By Darren Taylor, SooToday<\/em><\/p>\n

Published October 8, 2024<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Station Mall and several local organizations \u2014\u00a0including Village Media, the home of\u00a0<\/span>SooToday<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 have stepped forward to help in the ongoing mission to feed the community\u2019s hungry.<\/p>\n

Station Mall hosted a CANstruction competition in which organizations collected donations of canned food in September and arranged the cans in creative fashion at locations throughout the Bay Street shopping centre.<\/p>\n

CANstruction is a global anti-hunger initiative that began in 1992 through the Society for Design Administration, an affiliate of the American Institute of Architects.<\/p>\n

CANstruction displays of donated canned food can be large and elaborate and can appear in the form of beloved cartoon characters, superheroes, birds, animals, famous buildings or objects such as bank vaults.<\/p>\n

The CANstruction event at Station Mall was not the first in Sault Ste. Marie but it was a local revival of that particular food drive.<\/p>\n

\u201cStation Mall had hoped to hold this event for several years and although small this year, we are glad to have it finally happen,\u201d Lynne Fabbro, Station Mall guest services administrator, told\u00a0<\/span>SooToday<\/em>. \u201cOur thanks go out to the teams. It involved fundraising, planning and hard work but they must have found it rewarding because they are already planning creations for the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Indigenous Friendship Centre constructed two displays of donated canned food, one incorporating the design of the Indigenous Medicine Wheel, the other portraying the Red Dress to recognize Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG).<\/p>\n

St. Mary\u2019s College and Sault College students constructed their collection of donated canned food in a display that included an image of The Cross of Christ and the message \u2018Let’s help put hunger in the shadows, not the hungry.\u2019<\/p>\n

Village Media staff members constructed their display to resemble a Rubik’s Cube and named it Rubik’s CANundrum.<\/p>\n

The various groups put their CANstruction displays together at Station Mall Friday, Sept. 27 to Sunday, Sept. 29.<\/p>\n

The displays stood from Monday, Sept. 30 to Sunday, Oct. 6 before they were \u2018de-canstructed,\u2019 the canned goods sent to the Algoma Food Security Network to be given to Harvest Algoma, Niigaaniin, Salvation Army, Soup Kitchen Community Centre, and St. Vincent\u2019s Place.<\/p>\n

Judges awarded prizes in the following categories:<\/p>\n