Say hello to CLB’s newest staff
Resilient and hardworking, Lorri Sprlak has been an immense benefit and addition to the Community Lunch Box team. She joined the Community Lunch Box little over a year ago and has since enjoyed the varied work she does on a weekly basis.
Lorri has had extensive experience with cleaning professionally at Quality Day Inn as a house cleaner for many years. Drawing on that experience, she’s meticulous when cleaning and always insures it is done properly.
The cleanliness of the CLB Support Centre speaks volumes to the high standard in which she holds herself too. Every Friday she mops, vacuums, dusts the furniture and washes the windows with a jaw-splitting grin on her face. Her cheerful and easy going demeanour is contagious to everyone present.
“I wanted to help out in the community and help the kids by making lunches” Ms. Sprlak said. She is apart of the breakfast/lunch programming at St. Joe’s School and helps with preparing the meals for the students on Tuesdays.
After helping out with the school, Lorri comes over to the Lunch Box garage to help sort bottles for two hours then goes on a driving adventure to pick up bottles around town at various businesses.
“My favourite part about working with the Community Lunch Box is the people I work with, everyone is amazing, and it’s like team work.”
Part of the Community Lunch Box’s success strives from that statement. It isn’t just one person but everyone involved that makes the program as divisive and inclusive as it has become over the past ten years.
It’s the people that make it happen and people like Lorri; hardworking and resilient that makes the community program the incredible force it has become today.
When Lorri isn’t working or busy volunteering she can be found visiting with friends and going out for coffee. She enjoys music as well and her favourite music artist is the Zac Brown Band. She hopes to one day buy the game console Wii U, stating that when she was younger she loved playing Nintendo and it brings back a sense of nostalgia.
Hard work and dedication pays off. 20 year old Jered St. Martin is a talented young man who made the decision to join the Community Lunch Box Program because he told me “I wanted to try something new. It gets me involved with the community and giving back”