News Alert! Take a look at Life Choices Doggie Day Campaign this June

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What are we doing and why?

Life Choices is hosting hot dog BBQ lunches with elementary school classes in the GTA. We want to get involved with the community and celebrate the end of the school year with students.

The best part:

Students will choose the charity or internal school fund to donate all the money raised!

 

When and where are we going?

(1)   Friday, June 3, 2011 – We are at Plum Tree Park Public School in Mississauga!           

• Grade 6 students help us host a BBQ, donating all funds to student graduation & to the improvement of schoolyard facilities.

(2)  Wednesday, June 15, 2011 – We are at Regal Road Public School in Toronto!

• Grade 4s and 5s have decided to donate their BBQ funds to purchase new gym equipment for the school.

(3)  Thursday, June 16, 2011 – We are at St. Timothy Catholic School in North York, check out their student invite to the left!

• Three student leadership groups: Go Local, Me to We and student council donate BBQ funds to Free the Children’s Brick by Brick Foundation – helping to build a school in a third world country from the ground up.

(4) Friday, June 17th, 2001 – We are at Bennington Heights Elementary School in mid-town Toronto. Get this: Bennington Heights is donating all the money raised to Park Lane Public School, a school for children with developmental disabilities. What a fantastic idea!

(5) Monday, June 20th, 2011 – Look for us at Forest Hill Junior Public School. This school has decided to donate money to the Make-a-Wish Foundation. We think that’s great.

DAILY UPDATES

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June 21st

Check out this wonderful note we got from Regal Road Public School teacher, Mr. Leverty, who helped his school raise $736.55 for new school gym equipment:

Hi Life Choices,

We raised $736.55! Amazing. I can’t thank you enough for hosting the event and providing everything.  Life Choices Foods is truly a special company.  You hear a lot about “community outreach” by companies, but you guys are the real deal. Everybody at Regal Road was so happy with the way it turned out, and the money raised will go directly into improving the lives of our students. Thank you!

We really hope we can do this again next year.  Please!  And if we were able to sell veggie dogs, we could raise even more money!

Below is the blurb that will be going into our school newsletter. I have included your website in the blurb. If I can help out with any more publicity, please let me know. Rest assured, the Regal Road community knows about Life Choices Foods.

As soon as the purchased equipment has arrived, I will take a picture of it with the kids and email it to you.

I will stay in touch!

Regards,

Mr. Leverty

June 20th

Some of the results are in!

Regal Road raised $736.55! All the money raised will be used to support the Physical and Health Education Department at Regal Road. 

St. Timothy raised $828 for Brick by Brick – They are close to 10% there and did it all in one lunch hour!

Bennington Heights raised $392 for Park Lane Public School students. 

June 17th

Today we were at Bennington Heights Elementary school raising money for Park Lane Public School. What a surprise it was when Park Lane students joined us for lunch, and helped us throw the best Doggie Day yet.

June 16th

Thank to you St. Timothy Catholic School for a great Doggie Day. Brick by Brick showed up and we all enjoyed an amazing educational component to our frundraising initiative; thank you Brick by Brick for teaching us the importance of giving to others less fortunate than us.

June 15th

What a day. We are still tallying the funds raised, but we think Regal Road made over $500 today. The students were so helpful — thank you Regal Road! What a bonus that the weather was so beautiful

June 14th

Tomorrow we will be at Regal Road school. With the help of Mr. Leverty’s gym class, we are going to try and raise $500 to be used towards new gym equipment for the 2011/2012 school year. Yahoo!

June 13th

We are gearing up to provide 3000 Hot Dogs next week. Holy smokes.

June 10th

We have 5 Doggie Days confirmed! Yes yes yes!

June 9th

We have solidified 4 Doggie Days for the end of next week — oh my! That’s a lot of Dogs. How much $$$ might we raise?

June 5th

We think that Make-A-Wish may be at our next Doggie Day. Wouldn’t that be grand! Our fingers are crossed.

June 3rd, 2011

WOW! What a great day. We served 640 Hot Dogs in only 45 minutes to Plum Tree Park Public School. Thank you to Councillor Pat Saito for showing up and supporting this wonderful event. We raised $640 for Plum Tree’s graduation and improvements to the school yard.

June 2nd, 2011

Big preparation is going on in anticipation of tomorrow’s Doggie Day BBQ at Plum Tree Park Public School. 1400 Hot Dogs will be BBQd and served within an hour – WOWZA!