By meadowlakeNOW

Door of Hope nets around $24,000 for annual fundraiser

Nov 6, 2017 | 12:48 PM

The staff at Meadow Lake’s food bank and soup kitchen is feeling positive after the annual fundraising banquet.

Unita Esau, the organization’s Executive Director said about 200 guests attended the event on Friday, Nov. 3 at the civic centre, and said while the $24,000 raised was down from last year’s $46,000 total, the amount of support for the silent auction helped out.

“Last year was our 25th anniversary, so it was a banner year,” Esau said. “Our silent auction sales were up very nicely. We still have some money coming in, we’re really grateful for the money we did get, we’ll put it to good use. Bottom line is, it’s money we didn’t have in the morning we certainly had at night, and we’re very appreciative.”

There were three speakers at the event, all representing community partners of the Door of Hope. Evan Haubrich, manager of Extra Foods, or of the sources where the Door of Hope gets daily donations of food from (the other two are Meadow Lake Co-op and 7-Eleven), Andrea Lavallee from Jubilee School, and Dave Thickett, Executive Director of Multiworks Corporation.

She said each speaker was chosen for the strong ties to their organization. Lavallee, for example, spoke about the benefits of the school lunch program, where volunteers and cooking staff from the Door of Hope prepare food for the city’s schools.

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“The school lunches are up to about 900 a month [city-wide] now,” Esau said. “The schools decide where the lunches are going, they spoke on what that meant to them.”

The monies raised at this event will go directly to the day-to-day operations of the organization, to everything from running the food bank, soup kitchen, and various programs.

kathy.gallant@jpbg.ca  

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