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Dan Johnstone is used to the cold by now.

After all, he’s spent the past nine winters camping out in the back of a cube truck in shopping centre parking lots to raise money and donations for Edmonton’s Food Bank. It’s what Can Man Dan does.

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“I’ve lucked out pretty good (so far),” said Johnstone. “The coldest it got was last weekend when it hit -25 C but it was only a couple days of that and I survived.”

Johnstone kicked off his fourth and final four-day campout of the 2019 holiday season Saturday morning at the Southbrook Sobeys, 1109 James Mowatt Trail SW. Starting at 10 a.m., he found himself busy right off the hop with a lineup of people waiting outside for him.

“We must have almost $1,000 worth of food here already,” Johnstone said. “People are just being so generous, there was a huge lineup here to see me, it’s been crazy. The generosity of Edmontonians is unmatched.”

Photo by Ed Kaiser / Postmedia

For the second straight year, Johnstone is accepting both food donations for Edmonton’s Food Bank and new toy donations for Santas Anonymous.