- All right, welcome
back to the Surrey Report
for September.
I'm here at the food bank with Feezah,
and we're gonna be talking
about their recent move
and a bunch of other awesome stuff.
But first as usual, here are
the stats for last month.
- In the Detached market benchmark
prices around $1,118,000.
That's a 1.1% increase month over month
and a 6.7% increase year over year.
And one thing we have noticed
is that when we compare
the number of sales from
August, 2019 to August, 2020,
there has been a drastic increase.
- The Town houses are
the same as they were
in July of this year at $586,700,
but a 3.3% increase year over year.
- Moving into our condo market,
we've seen 208 sales
in the month of August.
That is up substantially
over the 152 sales
we've seen at the same time last year.
Our benchmark price is $403,000.
We are down 0.3% month over month,
and up 4.6% year over year.
- All right Feezah, thanks for having me.
- No thanks Steve.
- We're gonna try and stay-
- Stay as far apart as we can.
- Almost far apart. Not really far apart.
- COVID time.
- We are here at the brand new
beautiful Surrey food bank.
So can you please tell
me a little bit about,
well, first let's tell us
where you're located now.
Cause it's changed.
- Yeah, so we moved from
our Whalley location.
We're now in Newton.
So we're at 13478 78 Avenue,
which is just off of
King George Boulevard.
A quick walk in off the highway there.
- Awesome. And tell me
about your new space.
I don't know if anybody's ever helped out
at the old food bank, but
it wasn't exactly a shining,
pearl.
- Pearl. No. (laughs)
- And this is exactly the opposite.
- Yes. So this new facility
is 23,000 square feet.
So it is literally three times larger.
You can fit the old food
bank in here, three times.
We have a dedicated
space for distribution,
to our clients we have dedicated space
for sorting of the donations that come in.
And then where we are right
now is our dry storage.
So that is literally twice
the size of the old storage.
- It' awesome. It's beautiful.
- Yeah. Its pretty cool.
- And it actually leads to,
like we obviously, this is
our organization of choice
to donate all of our client
events, all the money.
- Yeah.
- Comes in.
- And you guys have been amazing.
- Yeah. Well, I would say,
those guys have been amazing.
- Those guys. Yeah.
You guys have been amazing.
- I think when you gave
us the total last year,
I think it's something like
$40,000 plus dollars from,
You guys.
- From you guys.
Which is just like donors like you guys,
and Steve and his team
they're invaluable to us,
'cause we get no government funding.
So a hundred percent of our donations
come from our community.
- So what I am encouraging
people here to do today,
is if they do wanna come down volunteer,
I don't know how all this works these days
with the pandemic going
on and all that stuff.
But if somebody does wanna
come check this place out
and help out, how can they do that?
- So you can either
call us, (604) 581-5443,
or you can go to our
website, surreyfoodbank.org,
they can register to volunteer.
Or if they just wanna come
for a tour and maybe come down
and bring some food
donations or cash donations,
we're open five days a week, nine to four.
- Okay. So if you're gonna volunteer,
is that an individual thing
or is it a group thing
or are we allowed to do
group things anymore?
- Right now we're just individual,
and we're limiting it just
because of the pandemic.
Hopefully soon we're gonna start groups,
maybe September, October.
- Because before I used
to see you with like,
your company or somebody.
Is like a team building
thing would come down.
- Yeah. So right now, just with COVID,
we wanna be as careful as possible
and make sure that people
are as safe as possible,
our staff, our volunteers and our clients.
So groups we're limiting
and we're probably starting
in end of September.
- So an easier way might be
to just continue to donate?
- Yeah. Donate online,
and they can donate by
credit cards online.
Or if they want to send a cheque,
people still do cheque,
they can send in cheque,
to donate to us as well.
- And so let me get this straight though,
you guys prefer the cash
because you guys have
buying power? Is that right?
- Yeah. So things like pasta,
pasta sauce, baby formula,
protein, all of those things
we don't get in enough
quantity is donated to us
like in canned or box form.
So we use the money that is
specifically for those items
to get a more in bulk.
'Cause our dollar goes further
- So much further.
- than yours would in
like a grocery store.
- Absolutely awesome.
Well, I'm also here on the Surrey Report,
I wanted to announce that
starting the 21st of September,
we're gonna be organizing
our own food drive as well.
Which means we would come to
you our clients for pickup.
Down below wherever you're watching,
this Instagram or Facebook or YouTube,
will be a link to the food bank,
if you just would like to donate yourself,
and help out what is now,
not just an amazing charity,
but a beautiful organization
like absolutely literally.
Let's touch on the other
side of things a little bit.
Your clientele that
actually need the service,
if someone out here that
is listening to this
needs to come in as a client,
rather than a donor, what do they do?
- So again, go to our website
and all the information
that you need to register.
So government issued picture ID,
proof that you live in Surrey or Delta,
and then proof of low income.
And then you call our
office (604) 581-5443,
and you make an appointment to register.
And we have registration five days a week,
from nine to one is
our distribution hours.
- And then they just kinda,
show up?
- They basically, yeah.
So as soon as they make their
appointment, they show up.
Then we encourage them to
bring their own bags or boxes
and they get to choose what they'd like.
So they choose up to like 10
or 12 nonperishable items.
And then we have fresh
items, like fresh dairy,
fresh produce, fresh meat,
things like that and bread.
And then also sundry items
and household cleaners
and things like that.
So they get a pretty
good variety of items.
- Cool.
- Yeah.
- Well, here's what I
think we're gonna do.
As I said, all the information
is gonna be down below this
video for our food drive.
We're gonna run it from
the 21st to the 30th,
where our team will actually come to you
and pick up any donations you have.
You can also click the link
right down below there.
And why don't I start it off?
I'm gonna personally donate
right now a thousand bucks.
- Awesome.
- So let's do that.
- Thank you so much.
- Well I'm not gonna do it now
I'm gonna click the link as well.
Okay.
- All right.
- So thank you for having me.
- Thank you.
- Please, I really want people to know
that this is a great
place for people in need.
And if you can please give
as much as you possibly can.
Especially now, when there
are so many people that,
as you mentioned, we were
talking about earlier,
there's a new group that's come around,
because there's a whole lot of
people that are out of work.
- Yeah. People that have
lost their businesses,
people have been furloughed,
healthcare workers,
people in the service industry,
people we've never seen before.
And because of the pandemic,
they've lost their jobs,
they've lost hours, they've
lost their businesses.
Some are on the verge of maybe
losing their homes as well.
So we're here to help anybody
and everybody that needs help.
- Awesome. Well, thank you for having me.
We will get this whole thing together.
If you would like to donate,
please reach out or just click down below.
- Awesome.
- Bye for now.
- [Announcer] Thanks for watching
the Surrey Report again this month,
and thank you for supporting
the Surrey Food Bank.
As Feezah mentioned,
lots of people are going
without these days,
and if you're having any
financial trouble at all,
and have a mortgage
go back and watch our video
about deferring your mortgage
and how that could possibly
help you through COVID.
Thanks so much for
watching again this month,
we'll see you next month
on the Surrey report.
- We're closer than six feet.
