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Friends of YK Seniors' Society |
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Sponsors:
Yellowknife Community Foundation * *
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. |
The Yellowknife
Community Foundation has given the Yellowknife Seniors’ Society a
grant of $5,000 to support our Lunch With A Bunch program. 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. * * *
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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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