2 November 2006
CPR Holiday Train on its Way
North Bend British Columbia - The annual Canadian Pacific
Railway Holiday Train will be rolling into North Bend at about 8 p.m., Monday, (18 Dec 2006), just east of the terminal,
says CPR spokesman Ed Greenberg.
"The Canadian train, which will again be loaded with brightly coloured Christmas lights, features a new and exciting show this
year with Wide Mouth Mason and Lisa Brokop headlining the cross-Canada journey that starts on 1 Dec 2006 and
goes until 1 Dec 2006," he said in an statement last week.
"Right now, 70 communities in Canada will experience the Holiday Train magic and these don't include the many unscheduled stops
the train will make to entertain people along the way."
The Holiday Train is also scheduled for a stop in Lytton at 5:15 p.m. prior to arriving at North Bend and in the next day in Agassiz
(19 Dec 2006) at 4:15 p.m. just across from the Agra Centre on Pioneer Avenue.
CP Rail annually sends two trains across Canada and the United States in support of community food banks. This is the eighth year the
Holiday Train will be taking to the rails for local food banks, with its message of hope and community support. Since 1999, the
Holiday Train program has raised over $2.4 million and close to 1.3 million pounds of food for North American food banks. In 2005
alone, more than $500,000 and 454,022 pounds of food were raised by concerned Canadians and Americans. All donations collected in a
community remain in that community for local distribution.
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