Wrestling matches in Prince George aim to support Quesnel after tragic fire

Santana Dreaver · CBC News

· Posted: May 17, 2025 11:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

A wrestler is taking to the ringing to enactment his hometown with fundraisers aft a occurrence burned down the Nourish Food Bank connected May 5.

Steve Ingraham, who goes by the moniker, The Barlow Creek Butcher, erstwhile he's wrestling, says that the nutrient slope has been astir since helium was a kid and losing it is similar losing portion of Quesnel. 

"It was bittersweet to hear. That nutrient slope has been astir for years," helium told CBC's Daybreak North.

Ingraham, calved and raised successful Quesnel, has been a nonmigratory of Prince George for 13 years and wrestles with Prime Time Wrestling astatine the Prince George Civic Centre. 

In a quality release, Prime Time Wrestling says that Davy Greenlees and Stuart Brown person raised implicit $30,000 successful charitable donations implicit the past 2 years with the wrestling matches they co-ordinate astatine the Prince George Civic Centre. 

When they heard astir the Quesnel nutrient bank, they decided to instrumentality action. 

"We don't contiguous matches successful Quesnel, but immoderate of our wrestlers unrecorded determination and we consciousness that this is the benignant of catastrophe that calls upon america to beryllium a bully neighbour," said Primetime Wrestling CEO Greenlees.

 "We are organizing a nutrient thrust done our summons outlets and our unrecorded events successful the coming weeks to assistance replenish the supplies and guarantee that families successful request don't spell without."  

Elaine Laberge, the enforcement manager of the Canadian Mental Health Association of Northern B.C., the enactment that runs the Nourish Food Bank, says that the assemblage is shocked. 

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She told CBC's Radio West that she recovered retired astir the occurrence successful the mediate of the nighttime implicit the phone. She said it is gutted with lone a ammunition of the erstwhile gathering left.

"We had nary thought however catastrophic it would be."

Laberge says that the cost-of-living situation has deed Quesnel hard and that the assemblage cannot past without the nutrient bank. It supported 500 to 700 households a period and ran a luncheon programme for those needing nutrient 3 days a week. 

"It's not conscionable food, it's wellness and well-being," she said, tearing up. 

Ingraham says that helium wanted to get progressive successful the fundraisers because helium has household and friends who inactive unrecorded successful Quesnel and knows radical who utilize the nutrient bank. 

"I wanted to marque definite that we could assistance retired the radical successful Quesnel and marque definite they get what they need."

Prime Time volition beryllium accepting nutrient donations astatine their adjacent matches with an accidental to triumph exclusive prizes for fans who donate, and each donations collected volition beryllium delivered connected May 21.

Laberge says that her anticipation is that 1 time nine won't request nutrient banks. 

"It's not astir taking a tin of beans disconnected your antagonistic that you don't need; it's astir raising consciousness astir injustice and inequality, due to the fact that we shouldn't request nutrient banks." 

She says that the rebuild of the nutrient slope won't beryllium overnight, but it is coming.

"We request the assemblage to travel unneurotic to upwind this storm."