Harvest supper

Toddle Inn Day Care Society

Board Member

 

Cassandra Sloane and I worked all day on a large turkey dinner for the Community Harvest Supper in support of Toddle Inn Daycare on Oct. 2. We had total of five cakes donated to be judged, and these, plus the dinner tickets, raised just over $1,000 after expenses. The three judges we had were amazing.

Shelly Reed (the new general manager of Strathmore Boston Pizza), who was there to judge cakes, also helped us with coffee and cut potatoes.  The Church coffee machine broke down and Shelly took all the containers to Boston Pizza and filled them with coffee.

Brad Walls (candidate for Strathmore Town Council), was also there to judge the cakes. He stayed and helped with the entire evening. We had him stirring salads, making German chocolate coconut icing and greeting guests at the door. Koreann Bland who also judged the cakes, stayed for most of the evening, carving turkeys, making icing for carrot cakes and finishing off the stuffing for the supper. Berneice Bland was also a huge help with coffee, tea and dishes.

Some Toddle Inn Day Care staff and board members were available throughout the day helping with setting up tables and cleaning up afterwards, which helped Cassandra and I out. Toddle Inn staff who helped included Roxanne Jones (director), Laure Ness (president), Vickie Dykens (secretary), Terry and Amy Nitschmann, Wyone Baluch and Mark.

Ron Urichuk donated four turkeys and two hams. The Strathmore Station, Roadhouse and Boston Pizza donated gift certificates.  Canadian Tire and Home Hardware donated prizes for our cake decorating event. WestJet donated two travel vouchers for the door prize.

First place in the cake decorating contest was Lacy with that amazing barrel cake, of course.  She won a gift certificate to The Station restaurant and a gift package from Home Hardware.  We wish to sincerely thank all businesses for their donations.

The Toddle Inn kids decorated three cakes in total for the contest, so we decided to give the Toddle Inn the gift certificates from Boston Pizza. On their next Friday off from school they are going to host a pizza party. 

We had Brad Walls draw the name for the WestJet tickets.  Ron Urichuk was the winner.           

The Toddle Inn has a long road to hit that $10,000.00 goal; this will be one of our main topics at our next board meeting. I think as a board member, seeing the parents of the day care help out more often would definitely benefit the day care.  But, we are working with families that struggle with day-to- day issues, let alone trying to help their day care raise money for improvements. It’s sad that the government cut this grant, our lives are already complicated, and we have all added another government issue to the pile.