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Donations Coming In
Tomorrow morning at 8:10 Jesse will be live on CFCW… we expect that to be a big boost in getting the donations to start coming in. We’ve had money donations from the JOY group at Gospel Center and Rick’s grill in Sherwood Park… also from Hyundai in the West End…
News at Noon
Jesse is going to be on CTV News at Noon on Remembrance Day… we never know exactly what time he is on but the noon show starts at 12….. Hopefully some people will see him. Looks like we might even have a sponsor from Quebec…. I will keep you informed.
Thank you Giant Tiger
Giant Tiger on Stony Plain Rod and 150 st. gave us a huge bag of socks and ladies tops to start off our bags. We also bought all their remaining school bags at $3.00 each. We are really hoping the other 2 Giant Tigers will help us out too. Off…
2010 Hope in a Bag has started
Hi Everyone, It doesn’t seem possible but we are in October again… so time to think about Hope in a Bag. This year is our 5th year anniversary and most likely ‘our’ family’s last time running the project. Jesse will be in grade 12 next year and will have to…
210 bags of the 283 bags delivered to JPHAWC
Wow what an exciting evening. The weather was beautiful compared to a few days ago. The Jasper Place Health & Wellness Center was absolutely packed. We thought we’d loaded too many bags on the trucks but no way…. we only left 25 behind for the people who couldn’t make it…
CFCW in Camrose Thank you Thank you Thank you
A big Thank you to CFCW listeners from Camrose. We simply could not believe the stuff that came in. Also a big thank you to Live to Dye Salon for getting stuff from Shoppers Terra Losa Pointe, the clients from Live to Dye and a huge Thank you to Big…
thank you so much all those who dropped off things today
I was busy packing some bags and my husband came in with the last load from CFCW. My bin outside was FULL with back packs already filled to the brim with all the items. These were from the teams at the Drillers Soccer club. Also some from U19 Belle ringette team…
Jesse made another appeal on CFCW
Jesse went on CFCW with Sharon Mallon again to make another appeal. Things are very slow coming in this year. Of course the cold weather and snow should be hitting us any day and that seems to get people thinking about those who are homeless. Also now that it’s December… that…
don’t count your chickens before they hatch
We were told we’d get 100 back packs from London Drugs at 5.00 each but they only had 30.:(… so altogether we only have 88 bags so far. Donations have been very slow in coming but we know they will come in towards the end. We need more back packs…
yeah donations are starting to come in
My niece Tracy brought a bunch of candy as she’s done in the past 3 years… and a couple of ladies from Gospel Center brought donations to the church on Sunday. We still haven’t heard from anyone about back packs :(so we are going to have to go store to…
