To the Editor:
The Christmas season is now upon us and the Our Home Kikinaw, a program of Thompson Neighbourhood Renewal Corporation, was fortunate to be a part of it.
This year Our Home Kikinaw was chosen to take part in Manitoba Hydro's Community Giving Program. The Thompson Community Parade Committee was given glow sticks to sell at the parade and National Child Day celebrations on Nov. 24 by Manitoba Hydro which then partnered with Our Home Kikinaw. Volunteers of Our Home Kikinaw were out in full force selling the glow sticks along the parade route, as well as at City Hall for National Child Day and the Community Christmas Tree Lighting.
Further sales were also made at another fundraising event, the Old Fashioned Christmas Concert held on Nov. 29 at the Letkemann Theatre. Our Home Kikinaw was the recipient of the proceeds from this event and the Letkemann Theatre was packed that night. The support that
Our Home Kikinaw received through both of these fundraisers was truly heart warming.
Our Home Kikinaw received $1,401 from the Old Fashioned Christmas Concert and $429 from Manitoba Hydro's Community Giving Program with the selling of the glow sticks. Our Home Kikinaw and the Thompson Community Parade Committee equally split the money raised through selling of the glow sticks.
Our Home Kikinaw would like to thank the Old Fashioned Christmas Concert organizer Donna Wilson and the many people that were involved to make the evening such a success, including performers, those behind the scenes and to the many people who attended. We would also like to thank Manitoba Hydro, the Thompson Community Parade Committee and Our Home Kikinaw volunteers for their involvement with the glow stick fundraiser.
Our Home Kikinaw is a project of TNRC that assists low income families in achieving home ownership by providing them with the opportunity to purchase a no-profit home. Our Home Kikinaw works in partnership with low-income working families, sponsors and the community to build safe, decent and affordable housing. Volunteers and community partners are mobilized to build and promote home ownership as a means to break the cycle of poverty. Our Home Kikinaw is currently constructing its second home.
Fundraising is an important part of the success of Our Home Kikinaw and the fundraising committee is always in need of more volunteers. If you would like to contribute to the fundraising efforts of Our Home Kikinaw, please contact me at 204-677-0762.
Merry Christmas and all the best in 2013!
Blake Ellis,
Housing Coordinator,
Thompson Neighbourhood Renewal Corporation
