NDG Food Depot to close for 1 week, reopen at new location on Somerled Ave.

The NDG Food Depot will be closed from Sept. 25 to Oct. 1 as the community organization moves into its new home on Somerled Avenue.

After years of uncertainty, the Depot found a new temporary location in August, signing alease to move into a vacant restaurant space at6450 SomerledAvenue.

The regular services will not be offered while the Depot is closed.

However, two regular satellite food marketswillstill be running from3:30 6:30 p.m.at the Walkley Centre onWednesday, Sept. 27and bytheSt.Raymond's Community Centre inGeorges-Saint-Pierre Parkon Thursday, Sept. 28.

The Depotofficially reopens Oct. 2, with thefirstfoodbasket and meal service totake placeOct.3, from 2 p.m. to 7p.m.

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The Depot has to move out of itsregular locationatTrinity Anglican Memorial Churchbecause the building is closing due tolack of "financial sustainability."

The new location is a solution, but a temporary onetheir lease is only for three years and the space isn't big enough to house their administrative team.

"It's an old restaurant located in the Fielding-Walkley neighbourhood. Fielding-Walkey is NDG's largest food desert,"the depot's executive director, Daniel Rotman, said.

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The NDG Food Depot has been helping the community for the past 31 years. It offers emergency food baskets, free meals and cooking classes, among other things.