The family of the man who started the Edgar Burton Christmas Food Drive & Kids Helping Kids campaign has donated $10,000 to kick-start this year’s campaign.

“We are very pleased to officially start this year’s community campaign by receiving a donation of $10,000 towards the Edgar Burton Food Drive from the newly formed Burton Family Foundation,” the Sudbury Food Bank said in a release Friday.

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“(The foundation) aims to support arts and community in Sudbury. Co-founders Ashley Burton Rantala and Brian Burton are family members of the late Edgar Burton.”

For more information, visit www.burtonfamilyfoundation.ca .

Edgar Burton, a machine operator at Inco (now Vale) in Sudbury, started the food drive in 1987, inspired by his daughters and efforts by loc

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