LETTERS: Support of charitable causes appreciated

Dear Penticton and surrounding communities: 2014 has been another successful year thanks to the massive amount of support we received from the people we serve.

With your continued support, The Penticton Professional Firefighters Charitable Society raised and donated another $41,000 to local, provincial and national charities.

A few of the charities/programs we donated to are: BC Burn Fund, Muscular Dystrophy Canada, Miss Penticton, South Okanagan Women in Needs Society, Penticton Regional Hospital Pediatrics Ward, Penticton Minor Hockey, The Penticton Safety Village, Have a Heart Telethon, OSNS Telethon, and Toys for Tots to Teens.

We would like to thank everyone who came out to our events and supported our causes; as well we are blessed to have made some great partnerships within our own community with businesses who have become corporate sponsors and partners at some of our events.

Britco has helped us in many ways like constructing the platform deck for our rooftop campouts and donating money towards our fundraising. Scotia Bank has become great partners at a few of our events like the Peach City Beach Cruise Pancake Breakfast and The Muscular Dystrophy Rooftop Campout, and has matched our fundraising dollar for dollar at these events. Safeway has partnered with us for many of the Muscular Dystrophy events like the Boot Drive and Morpheus Graphics has helped us out with all of our advertizing needs.

We also want to thank David Prystay for personally standing up for the safety of the citizens of Penticton, and the Penticton Lakeside Resort for putting us up for meetings and conventions. Thank you to all our media outlets within our community for helping us reach out to everyone. Without the help of people and businesses like this we wouldnt be able to give back as much as we do.

This year we finished raising our $25,000 total towards the BC Professional Firefighters Burn Fund Building. This money mostly came directly off our members paychecks by way of a dollar a day donation. This new building will be a treatment center designed specifically for burn survivors. For more information on the BC Burn Fund Building visit http://www.burnfund.org.

As always, we are honoured to serve in a community filled with caring and gracious people. We hope to continue to give back and to always be there to help and protect our wonderful city.

From our families to all of yours, thank you and have a safe and prosperous 2015.

Mike Richards

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LETTERS: Support of charitable causes appreciated