The law is serving up a little lunch at Belleville’s Salvation Army once a month and it begins this coming Saturday, March 23.
The law community has come up with The Brunch Bunch, members of the law serving lunch one Saturday a month, at the Salvation Army’s Pinnacle Street kitchen.
Spokesperson, criminal defence lawyer Ruth Roberts of Bonn Law, says this is separately funded from the Army.
People who have been convicted of crimes are sometimes sentenced to make charitable donations, and sometimes money is seized as proceeds of crime.
Roberts hopes the meal program will get some of that money
Volunteers come from all aspects of the law.
Members of the teams within the group will shop on Friday night, then be in the kitchen early Saturdays to cook the midday meal.
Eventually the Brunch Bunch plans to provide a bagged lunch for people to take away with them following the hot meal.
Roberts says, “Some members of the team have taken a safe food handling course at the health unit and one person with each kitchen crew has first aid training.”
Roberts is quoted as saying that if your belly is empty you can’t listen to your lawyer or your probation officer, or make good decisions.
