Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
In the 1980s, the Royal Canadian Legion started collecting pop tabs (pull tabs to open pop and cat food tins), to be sold to manufacturers, to raise money to buy wheelchairs for people in need.
Many of these were specialty chairs for those with special problems. It takes 2,500,000 tabs to buy one chair, so it takes many hands to accomplish the feat. There are now 2,726 wheel chairs handed out to those who would otherwise not have one, across the country. Eleven people in the Meaford area have benefited from the project, which uses only volunteers to make it work.
We have had a problem losing collection sites lately because former drop locations have changed hands.
I am just letting you know that we have been blessed with a new drop-off site. The Bulk Bin beside Subway is going to allow a recycle bin to collect any tabs caring people can collect. The Legion will make sure they get to Elora to provide another chair for the next person in need.
Thank you to Elaine for supplying a drop site, and also to those who help make sure life is a bit better for those in need.
Sincerely,
Comrade Roberta Docherty
Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 32
