Alain Larose and Sylvain Perrier: The Food Drive

Here, read the transcript of the interview with Alain Larose and Sylvain Perrier, a firefighter and an eligible firefighter in the Saint-Eustache Fire Safety Department.

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Sylvain: The association has been involved for more than twenty-five years.

Alain: That’s right!

Sylvain: It’s easily twenty-five years.

Alain: Yeah, and I even remember, before we did the roadblocks or collected in front of businesses in Saint-Eustache, we did… we put on spaghetti dinners. You weren’t with us back then.

Sylvain: No.

Alain: But we had spaghetti dinners. We held them at the old pool, the community centre that was there.

Sylvain: The Civic Centre.

Alain: The Civic Centre, sorry, thanks buddy. That’s right, where the gym was.

Sylvain: Yeah.

Alain: And… we collected money. We put on the spaghetti dinner. We made our own sauce, the pasta. A lot. The firefighters were really involved, along with the Knights of Columbus, and we passed on all the money to the Knights of Columbus specifically for the food drive.

Sylvain: That was before we raised funds the way we do now.

Alain: Exactly, that’s right, that’s right.