It'll take awhile to get all of the food collected in the "Love High River" food drive sorted and on the shelves because there's so much of it.

Lieutenant Kelly Fifield with the Salvation Army says they have a new scale and they weighed all the food collected and it came in at a hefty 5,017 pounds.

"It went really well, we definitely saw an increase with using the bags again this year," she says. "We had lots of people bringing bags out, we had people calling saying that some of their bags were missed and dropping them off."

She says just by looking at the food that was brought in it was easy to see they'd surpassed last year's donations and compared to previous years, it was about the same.

Fifield says they were a little "under manned" when it came to volunteers but she says they had some great people who did multiple routes to collect as much as they could.

She encourages anyone who's bag wasn't picked up Saturday, May 13, to bring their donation to the food bank Monday to Friday or drop it in a bin at any one of the grocery stores in High River.