{"id":332,"date":"2015-01-12T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/12\/when-dry-socks-and-warm-feet-make-a\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:40:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:40:40","slug":"when-dry-socks-and-warm-feet-make-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/01\/12\/when-dry-socks-and-warm-feet-make-a\/","title":{"rendered":"When dry socks and warm feet make all the difference"},"content":{"rendered":"

By P.A. S\u00e9vigny<\/b>
\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to the efforts of Montreal chef David Ferguson and some of his friends, dry socks and warm feet are presently making a big difference for at least a couple of thousand homeless people in the city. \u201cI don\u2019t quite get it myself,\u201d he said, \u201c…but everybody can identify with what it must be like to have cold wet feet in this weather and that\u2019s when they decided to do something about it.\u201d <\/p>\n

With little more than a bit of news coverage and a lot of action on the city\u2019s social media, six Montreal restaurants\u2014including Ferguson\u2019s uber-hip GUS located on the Plateau\u2019s Beaubien Street strip\u2014combined their efforts to gather up socks for the homeless after Ferguson saw someone walking in the slush along Park Avenue in an old pair of sneakers. For a single week, Ferguson and his friends offered a tall glass of sparkling wine to anyone who showed up in their restaurants bearing socks for the homeless.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing,\u201d said Ferguson who described his restaurant as \u2018a big meat, lots of fun\u2019 kind of place. \u201cPeople are still coming in with boxes full of new socks. One of my clients sent us some from the States and others went out and actually knitted some new socks for us. According to Najib Salah, a spokesman for the city\u2019s well-known Dans la Rue organization, at least 500 homeless teens now have new socks to keep their feet warm as they make their way through the city. \u201cAs of the last count,\u201d said Salah, \u201c…we received more than a thousand pairs of socks from these people and we\u2019re all very grateful for their efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aside from Ferguson\u2019s GUS, the chef\u2019s friends include the owners of Pastaga Restaurant and Vins Natures, Pizzeria Gema, Boucherie Lawrence, Santa Barbara and Gilford Street\u2019s well-known Micro-Resto La Famille who all pitched in to help find (at last count) some 4,562 new pairs of socks for the homeless. According to Salah, Montreal\u2019s Dans la Rue shared the socks with the city\u2019s Old Brewery Mission and the Plateau\u2019s own Sun Youth Organization. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a bit of a surprise,\u201d said Ferguson, \u201c…but I know that we touched a nerve and we all had a lot of fun putting this together.\u201d<\/p>\n

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