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Friends of YK Seniors' Society |
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Sponsors:
Yellowknife Community Foundation * *
Shirley LeGros has become a Breakfast sponsor in 2011. Shawn Delaney from Matonabee Petroleum presented Blake Lyons with a donation of $5000.00 of home heating oil to the Yellowknife Seniors' Society ** Floyd Adlem, 2nd VP of the YKSS, accepting a donation from Isabell McDorman Isabell was visiting from Toronto, with her daughter Heather. * * Ruby and her husband Laurin Trudel are both long time members of the YKSS and they are also the founders of FOOD RESCUE. |
Albert Eggenberger and Linda Balsillie with the wonderful bags of cookies to "cookie" our sponsors of 2011. Thanks to all those who helped make the cookies.
The Yellowknife
Community Foundation has given the Yellowknife Seniors’ Society a
grant of $5,000 to support our Lunch With A Bunch program for 2011. The
funds will be used to support 6 local youth groups prepare hot,
nutritious lunches for the seniors. The youth in turn, will
receive funds towards a special project that they may be fundraising
for, such as a band trip, hockey tournament or language and cultural
exchange trips.
On October 28, 2011 Darrell Vikse places a donation plaque on one of 2 fridges and a stove the Yellowknife Community Foundation donated to our kitchen. * * *
Otto Staebler is part owner of Yellowknife Motors. Otto provided the catering on Friday March 25, 2011 for Lunch with the Bunch * * *
Here are a couple of our breakfast sponsors Good Old Ray’s Plumbing and Heating, Ray & Olga Pirker and CK Holdings, Lauren & Phyllis McKiel. * * *
Bill Adkins(left) of Sun Life Financial donates the popular Tim Horton's gift card at Lunch With a Bunch. * * *
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Isabell McDorman (niece of Ed Baker) donated $3,000 for new computers and a printer for the seniors' computer classes. * * *
FOOD RESCUE, a local non-profit organization that diverts good food that would otherwise go into the dump ( eg. getting close to the expiry date), and get it to people who need it free of charge.
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