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| Lots of beautiful almost new footware for sale at the fundraising event. |
It was a crazy busy three days of fundraising events at the 105 Gibson Centre, Markham!
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| Lots of people from our community donated over 500 bags of items to the Garage Sale |
First there was the gigantic garage sale that lasted from Friday till Sunday.
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| We had a three day Garage Sale to raise fund for 105 Gibson Centre |
People from the community and congregants of TCCC donated over five hundred bags of gently used almost new clothing and house ware items to the annual sale.
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| The Garage Sale raised over Can. $20,000.00 during its three day event. |
Volunteers worked for days sorting and organizing all the items for display and sale.
It was a huge undertaking!
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| Some of the volunteers preparing refreshments for the Walkathon participants |
The second event at the same weekend was the annual Walkathon.
Many people were involved in planning the Opening Ceremony and the post walkathon celebration program.
The Committee met numerous times recruiting many volunteers helping out with the event.
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| McDonald's contributed generously to supply beverages to our Walkathon participants |
One significant breakthrough for us was connecting with some local business. We were able to obtain the sponsorship and support from our local McDonalds restaurants.
John P., the owner, donated very generously to this event and helped keep all the Walkathon participants hydrated and happy with orange drinks and hot coffee upon the completion of their walk.
There was a program afterwards as well. The most outstanding program was a group of blind singers from Taiwan performing and entertaining the crowd. Watching these blind singers performing and listening to their angelic voices was truly an uplifting and inspirational experience!
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| Lots of volunteers helping out at the 105 Gibson's Thanksgiving Dinner |
The third fundraising event was the Thanksgiving Dinner on Sunday evening - about five hundred people attended this buffet style dinner in the gymnasium of 105 Gibson Centre.
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| About five hundred people attended the Thanksgiving Dinner |
We were grateful that a lot of young people from the community and other agencies volunteered to help, set up fifty tables and served at this dinner.
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| Serving stations were set up to speed up the service at the dinner. |
It was a joy seeing the young people interacting and working together to serve the community.
Everything was so well organized and executed!
It was not long before we were called up to be served at the serving stations and were able to enjoy our food without much waiting.
My mom also came with me and she was tickled pink when she saw the video of me being interviewed about my volunteer work at the community centre.
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| Councilor Jim Karygiannis and Rev. Ng at the dinner |
We had a number of special guests attending and celebrating with us at our Thanksgiving Dinner including our city councilor and regional representative.
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| These 3 day events brought the various people from the community together. |
It was a very busy three days for the Fundraising Organizing Committee.
But as we look back at the results, we realize we have benefitted more than just the amount of money these three day events have raised for the Centre with its mission to serve the locals and the needy.
These fundraising events have also provided opportunities to our young people to be involved in meanful special events and bringing the various residents in the community together. I felt truly blessed to have played a small part in these three days and our hard work has been paid off indeed!
R.T.
Fundraising Weekend
105 Gibson Centre
Markham, Ontario
Canada
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