Volunteers put comfort food on the menu at Red Deer’s Ronald McDonald House

Susan Haggas with son Ryan, 11, and daughter Meghan, 8. The Haggas family says Ronald McDonald House's Home for Dinner program, which involves volunteers preparing meals for families staying there meant so much. (Photo by Paul Cowley/Advocate staff)
Volunteers sought to help provide daily meals at Red Deer’s Ronald McDonald House

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Gas prices are displayed in Carleton Place, Ont., on May 17, 2022. Statistics Canada will release its July reading of the consumer price index this morning. Economists are expecting inflation already peaked given the significant decline in gas prices since June. RBC is forecasting the year-over-year inflation rate fell from 8.1 per cent in June to 7.7 per cent in July. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

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A Canada Border Services Agency officer speaks to a motorist entering Canada at the Douglas-Peace Arch border crossing in Surrey, B.C. on Monday, August 9, 2021. One-quarter of front line employees surveyed at Canada’s border agency said they had directly witnessed a colleague discriminate against a traveller in the previous two years. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

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