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Bracelet sales help breakfast program sell them to raise money for the soup kitchen. Morgan’s mother Ria Morgan Kellam wove Kellam said the family her $25 Kingdom assign- initially hoped to raise ment into a donation of perhaps $100. “We aimed for $100, but more than $1,300 to a loin a week we had more cal soup kitchen. The Grade 8 St. Vincent than 100 sold,” she said. The famiSchool stuly realized dent re- “I wanted to invest ceived the with my $25. I thought, it was onto something, $25 to start ‘Why not help the spreading the project, the word which is homeless?’” through d e s i g n e d - Student Morgan Kellam friends, for students to think of the funds as family and their church. God’s money. It must be Morgan’s father, Glenn used outside the school’s Kellam, a trucker, took walls to further God’s the fundraising on the road. Kingdom. “Places helped sell them Morgan said it took a little time to figure out what for us,” Ria said. The fundraising spiraled to do. “I wanted to invest with from there. “We did well. It was my $25. I thought, ‘Why so much fun doing it,” not help the homeless?’” She targeted the Satur- Glenn said, recalling day Outreach Breakfast the many nights spent program at First Pres- around the dining room byterian Church in Cha- table making the bracelets. “To think in the betham. Her plan was to make ginning we were wonderelastic-band bracelets on ing how we’d make 100.” Continued on page 2 her Rainbow Loom and By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
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Dancers from Toronto based Samba Connection Dance Company and Axe Capoeira performed Saturday night to a soldout crowd at the Festival of Giving, which had a Blame It On Rio theme this year. Ticket holders enjoyed hours of entertainment, music, dinner, as well as a live and silent auction. The event raised nearly $308,000 for the Children’s Treatment Centre of Chatham-Kent and local foodbanks.
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