Station Mall and several local organizations — including Village Media, the home of SooToday — have stepped forward to help in the ongoing mission to feed the community’s hungry. 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. 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.
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. 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.
“Station Mall had hoped to hold this event for several years and although small this year, we are glad to have it finally happen,” Lynne Fabbro, Station Mall guest services administrator, told SooToday . “Our 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.
” 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 M.