Division 3 LG Blog: Kiwanis/Staples BBQ a Success!

Sept. 1st and 2nd, 2012
Happy anniversary to Kiwanis and Staples on the completion of our 10th year of our joint project to help kids less fortunate get their school year off to a good start. It is hard to believe that we have done our BBQ in front of the local Staples store for 10 years! How time flies! Kiwanians from the Sarnia club, Sarnia-Lambton Golden K cub and the Forest Club flipped burgers and dogs, poured drinks and had a lot of fun in the process on 2 beautiful days. We couldn't have asked for better weather. Total money raised was $675.00 which will go to Staples for school supplies.
How does this project work?
Every year we select schools where we think some students could use assistance with obtaining the necessary supplies to get their year off on the right foot. A letter is delivered to the Principal of each selected school during the last week of August. It requests that they have their teachers assess their students during the first week of class and then formulate a "wish list" for their school. This is then e-mailed to the Manager of the local Staples store. The staff then get to work packing up as much of each school's wish list as possible, based on the funds received both from donations at their checkouts, from our BBQ and a donation from Seaway Kiwanis.
All the supplies are delivered to each school a week later.
I would like to thank the following Kiwanians who assisted over the 2 day event -
Sarnia-Lambton Golden K - Archie Kerr, Mac McDonald, Dave Marshall and Mike Korol
Sarnia Kiwanis - Margaret Bradley and myself
Forest Kiwanis - Martin Brunner, Bud Orr, Jr. Butt and Kevin Weld
A very big THANK YOU goes to Dave Marshall for the use of his BBQ and donation of propane for this event.