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Calgary Transit will park buses outside Calgary Co-op locations this weekend, hoping to fill them all to the rim with donations to support the Calgary Food Bank.

Officials with the 23rd annual Stuff-A-Bus event, in partnership with Calgary Co-op and XL103 radio, say with the recent economic downturn, the Calgary Food Bank’s demand for donations is higher than ever.

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Cindy Drummond, food industry coordinator with the Calgary Food Bank, estimates demand is already up about 20 per cent from last year.

“I don’t think we’ve seen the worst of it,” she said, explaining that layoffs in Calgary’s oilpatch due to slumping oil prices are expected to continue.

“There’s a tremendous trickle down effect. All those people that were just laid off this fall, they’re still going through their own resources, but then they will come to see us.”

Drummond says the Stuff-A-Bus event is a critical component of their fall hamper food drive.