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RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS 49.8 - food security Description: 49.8 feature on food security. Photo of a crate half loaded with fresh fruits and veggies. More items still to go into crate to be sold at market. Melissa McDonald, co-ordinator.North End Community Renewal Corporation's North End Food Security Network buying, loading, packing and selling at cost, crates of fresh food for Selkirk area residents. Photos start of her shopping at Sobeys at Arlington and Dufferin and then at the Indigenous Family Centre (470 Selkirk). More info: For the past several years, Melissa McDonald has been buying fresh fruit and vegetables at cost from Sobeys Cash and Carry and selling them at a monthly market at the Indigenous Family. Melissa purchases a dolly cart full of boxed fresh food, loads them into her car, divides everything into equal portions into crates and sells them to area residents at the Story by Katie May Aug 20th, 2019