Successful year for Heart and Stroke
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- Published on Friday, March 25, 2016
Submitted by Jean Borchardt
The Neepawa Banner
This year’s campaign went very well again. I had 14 receipt books issued and returned. We collected $4,489.92 in donations from the days we were at Neepawa Gladstone Co-op Grocery Store, Harris Pharmacy, Elks Manor, Aspenlea Seniors Apartment, Kinsmen Kourts, Venus Hair Salon and West Park Place Residents. According to my records, this year’s totals were more than we received in 2014 and 2015.
The following volunteers gave of their time and energy to gather donations for the Heart and Stroke Foundation: Neepawa Gladstone Co-op: Pat and Marie Angers, Lori Brooking, Edith Burnside, Aurisse Collins, Linda Fleger, Annie Gladden, Annette Lehmann, Elizabeth (Betty) Patterson, Lillian Wiebe, Pauline Zygadlo and myself, Jean Borchardt; Harris Pharmacy: Elbourne and Lorna (Cawston) Boyd, Yvonne Ferguson and Marlynne Hargreaves; Kinsmen Kourts: Viola Dilling and Elizabeth (Betty) Patterson; Elks Manor: Aurisse Collins and myself; Aspenlea: Vernita Potrebka; Highway #5 Subdivision: David Zeke; Venus Hair Salon: Lesley Wilson.
Due to a lack of phone calls for help in getting people to sit at the Co-op, I called our Neepawa Touchwood Park and they had the following staff members come and let their clients welcome people. It was so heartwarming to see their enthusiasm to give back to the community in this manor by helping out at the Co-op Store.
Touchwood Staff: Amber and Esther; Clients: Justin, Angie, Tanya and Andrew.
I so wanted to acknowledge those wonderful ladies (and men) who came forward to help me out with this endeavor. I only had one expense and that was to give two people $5.00 each for helping me out with delivering some brochures around in the trailer park and also a gal who delivers newspapers. That was over 100 folders that were delivered to the homes in Neepawa.
The support we get from the Neepawa community is overwhelming. But, it is my desire to turn the reins over to someone else for the next campaign. The organizing is the biggest job, but I will always support the Heart and Stroke Campaign, especially by sitting at the Elks Manor, as the only one they allow into the Elks Manor is the Heart and Stroke Campaign, and I believe it was because our daughter Jeannette Dolding, who had a stroke in 2005, was instrumental in getting a defibrillator for the Elks Manor. Anyway, it has been a joy to be a part of this year’s endeavor and hope that someone can be found to take over next year.
