I always wondered what they were doing and how they were doing,” he said. However, he found out that the Maikawa’s moved to Pitt Meadows in 2017, just a couple of months before he moved to Maple Ridge. “I kept driving by and wanting to stop in and see if they were there and I just kept chickening out,” he said. When he resettled, he didn’t live too far from where the Maikawa’s lived. READ MORE: Thanksgiving food drive the first this year for Maple Ridge food bankĭuring his life Nagy had lived in Ontario and Alberta, and only moved back to B.C. Nagy was both shocked and excited after getting the call from Peggy, who recognized his name in a post online by the Friends In Need Food Bank listing his name and the number of volunteers for the Thanksgiving Food Drive routes. I was shocked when she (Peggy) told me it was only for three months,” said Nagy. “Honestly to me it felt like we were there for a lot longer. They were a really good family,” said Nagy, who remembered his time fondly – going camping and doing a lot of “fun stuff”. “We were there from April, 1988, to July. The Maikawa’s had two children of their own at the time. Peggy and Robert Maikawa became their foster parents. In 1988 Nagy and his sister were put in foster care for three months while their mother and father separated. READ MORE: Thanksgiving food drive nets new record for Maple Ridge food bank Nagy knew immediately who he was talking to. When he did, the person on the other end of the line asked him if he lived in Burnaby as a child, which he had, and if he had a sister named Angela. “I didn’t recognize the number,” said the 41-year-old, and almost didn’t pick up the phone because he was in the middle of something at work. 14 when he received a call out of the blue. Thanksgiving Food Drive, was caught off-guard on Oct. Jason Nagy, organizer of the local campaign for the B.C. A volunteer with the local food bank has been reunited with his foster parents after they recognized his name on a route for the recent Thanksgiving campaign.
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