Fundraising

500 Friends, $500 Gift Cards and almost $100,000 raised! What a week!

What a week! We we hit 500 Facebook Likes today, and with 39 days, 6 hours, and 35 minutes to go before our May 1st deadline, we have already raised almost $100,000 for our Community Challenge! Remember, everyone that sponsors a seat (or has already sponsored a seat!) will be entered into a draw to a win a $500 Save On Gift Card! Thanks to Save On for their amazing support.
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28 seats, $84,140 and counting!

Rick, our intrepid Treasurer, has just told me that since we announced our community challenge on February 22nd, we have raised almost $10,000, bringing the total to $84,140! We are on our way to the $150,000 total but we still have a way to go before May 1. If 660 more of us send in a $100 cheque we will be done! Thanks to all the following for their generous donations and seat sponsorships
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Ushering in a new era of possibility at our newly remodelled Civic Theatre

“I’m deeply moved by this truly salt-of-the-earth community! I remember going to the Civic Theatre since I was a little kid, whether to watch the movie, “The Man Who Would Be King” or to see Allan Ginsberg wail out his beat poetry. On Saturday night, the line-ups were halfway up the block on Vernon Street and people remembered the old days of movies at the Civic, before this new era of entertainment competition with Netfix and flat screens and iPads. Such a night it was!”
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