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Got Bannock? Althea Guiboche celebrates 2 years serving Winnipeg's homeless

It's been two years since Althea Guiboche started handing out food to Winnipeg's homeless. She celebrated the milestone on Sunday.

RAW: Althea Guiboche on 2 years as the "Bannock Lady"

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It's been two years since Althea Guiboche started handing out food to Winnipeg's homeless. She celebrated the milestone on Sunday.

It's been two years since Althea Guiboche started handing out bannock to Winnipeg's homeless.

She celebrated on Sunday by serving roast beef in a mashed potato bowl to people on Main Street.

Guiboche, who experienced homelessness herself, relies on donations to keep the operation going.

Althea Guiboche, Winnipeg's "Bannock Lady," has been sharing her bannock with the city's homeless since Jan. 30, 2013. Sunday was the two-year anniversary of her Got Bannock? movement. (Kim Catcheway)
Got Bannock started out small and now many have come to rely on Guiboche's generosity.

"I didn't have much reserves myself, and everyone was like do you have a plan, and I was it's hard to plan when you don't have much," Guiboche said. "I was just at the mercy of the donators, so look at what they did today."

Guiboche and her crew of volunteers are out at Main Street and Dufferin Avenue every other Sunday.

A fundraising event called "Got Art?" is being held on March 22 to help raise money to get the Bannock Lady a food truck.