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Community kitchen feels pinch of gas prices: executive director

30.05.2008 21:01 Shopping - Source: cbc.ca

The head of the Fredericton Community Kitchen says higher gas prices have cost the group an extra $2,000 so far this year.

Executive director George Piers said Thursday the community kitchen relies on a truck with an eight-cylinder engine to gather food from across the province.

He said this week's gas increase of four cents a litre will add even more to the cost of keeping the truck on the road. Gas prices were hovering at around $1.33 a litre in Fredericton on Friday.

Piers said grocery prices have also been rising, partly because of the higher transportation costs.

"We're also seeing the increase in things like sugar that we have to buy, [canned] goods, pasta," he said.

The group, which operates out of a building on Brunswick Street, serves three meals a day throughout the week and two meals a day on weekends.

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