Saturday September 12, 2020 | SOOKE, BC
by Mary P Brooke, editor | Island Social Trends
Many people still have bags full of returnable bottles lying around since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With fewer charity bottle drives and retail stores not accepting pop and juice bottle returns due to the impossibility of containing possible viral spread, what to do?
The Sooke option:
Various commercial bottle depots around the region are busy in this regard. But there is also the option in Sooke to take your refundable pop bottles, pop cans, and juice containers to the SAFARS animal rescue collection location at 2075 Otter Point Road in town centre. That’s the red and yellow house. Just leave your bottle donations on the front porch.
The SAFARS volunteers will sort what you drop off, and make the trip(s) to the depots where the funds received will be used for continued support of the feral kittens that they rescue and other cats being care for in pet-foster homes awaiting their forever-homes.
Got no bottles?
Donations can also be made by e-transfer to safars.org@hotmail.com or send a cheque by postal mail to SAFARS, PO Box 344, Sooke, BC V9Z 1G1.
For more info call 778-352-2999 or the contact page of the SAFARS Food Bank and Feral Cat Rehabilitation Centre website or visit the SAFARS Facebook page.
