A donation of $10,700 was presented to the Lacombe Food Bank Tuesday afternoon, thanks to the 3rd annual Twinkle Tours held at the Lacombe airport.

General Manager of the Lacombe Food Bank Millie Snow says this money will keep the food bank going well into the spring.

“We will be able to do whatever we need to do, we have several programs now that we are helping with for families and in the schools…I’m sure it’ll take us more than into March this year.”

President of the Lacombe Flying Club and Organizer of the aerial holiday light tours over Lacombe John From, says the event went off without a hitch.

“We had 7 volunteer pilots from the Lacombe Flying Club, donating their time and their airplanes, and we flew 214 people in four and half weeks ending just before Christmas. It was fantastic weather this year, we had very few delays.”

From says they will start accepting reservations for this year’s Twinkle Tours in November.