What started as a small gathering three years in the past has blossomed into a serious charitable effort, with this yr’s Mom’s Day Tea and trend present elevating 1000’s for these in want
A current Mom’s Day occasion in Victoria Harbour is giving an enormous increase to an area meals financial institution.
Final month, the Royal Canadian Legion department 523 women’ auxiliary hosted a trend present and Mom’s Day Tea at Oakwood Group Centre. This marked the third time the auxiliary had placed on a trend present.
“The occasion was an enormous success,” organizer Doreen Gunson tells MidlandToday, noting the most recent effort was on a bigger scale than the earlier two incarnations.
“We had over 200 in attendance and our purpose was to boost $5,000. We surpassed that and raised $6,526, with our silent public sale desk bringing $1,829 of that.”
And that makes the providing all the extra spectacular, particularly when one considers this began out as a possible one-off occasion three years in the past, however has regularly grown into one thing bigger.
The 2 earlier choices have been held on the Legion with 80 tickets offered every time. The primary time round, $1,500 was donated to the St. Vincent De Paul meals financial institution with $2,000 donated final yr.
This yr’s trend present featured garments and equipment from Maurices and Lilie’s Boutique at Norman’s Backyard Gallery together with musical leisure offered by keyboardist Gary Ball.
There was additionally the presentation of a Queen for a Day prize pack to Helga Ritter with John Patterson profitable the blanket donated by Caroline Whiteside with Patterson’s sister Leslie accepting the prize on his behalf.
Organizers had deliberate to take solely their bills from the ticket gross sales, which means the stability of funds raised are being donated on to the St. Vincent de Paul meals financial institution.
“At our Could assembly we determined to soak up the meals bills in addition to prime our donation to $7,000,” Gunson says, noting they plan to make a proper donation later this week by handing over a cheque to meals financial institution president Mary Warnock.
“I want to thank all 48 sponsors for his or her generosity, my comrades and anybody else who helped to make this occasion successful.”
