A local junk removal company is spreading holiday cheer by donating hundreds of toys to the Salvation Army.
Junk King owner Kyle Fagan said the company was hired to clear out a liquidation centre that had gone out of business north of the city.
Among the items left behind were bins full of toys, which the crew didn’t want to discard.
“One thing that we noticed was that it was a small place that a customer didn’t know what to do,” said Fagan.
“After calling around in a bunch of different places, I got in touch with the Salvation Army, who had said that they had a massive shortage of toys this year, which worked out perfectly for us because we had almost 2,000 toys that we had to get rid of.”
The company has been operating in Calgary for about a year.
Staff are tasked with clearing homes or …