Skeena MLA Ellis Ross was doing a bit of boasting about the community mindedness of the folks back home on Monday, speaking in the Legislature on themes of a pair of Community standards, the Kitimat Community Foundation and the Aluminum City Telethon.
The MLA recounting some of the work of the Foundation for the Legislature members in the Monday afternoon session.
The Kitimat Community Foundation serves and enhances Kitimat by connecting donors to community needs and opportunities. By bringing donors to the table, they are able to formulate and realize their philanthropic goals, matching their interests and concerns with community needs.The foundation takes a broad view of what a community is and what it needs to succeed, using its grants to support everything from shelters to sustenance and to care for those most in need.
The success of the foundation is because they take the long-term view of what it takes for community building by assessing the needs for the future and providing opportunities and investing in sustainable solutions, helping the community to be a strong and resilient place to live, work and play.
The annual Aluminum City Telethon continues each year in October as the main fundraising source for the Kitimat Community Foundation, which enables continued support of immediate needs in the community while building long-term stability funds for the future.
Mr. Ross also made note of the popular and long running telethon and the sense of community and contribution to the Kitimat region that the event brings each year.
Just recently, the foundation held its 43rd Aluminum City Telethon, and this year was another success at the Mount Elizabeth Theatre in front of a full crowd that included food trucks and the grad car wash.
The day could not have gone any better because they raised $55,000 to support many local organizations and programs, programs like the Tamitik Status of Women or the Delta King Place, which provides assisted-living services.
The volunteers that spend months in setting up this telethon truly deserve the thanks, and it benefits all walks of life, but they could use more volunteers.
October as the main fundraising source for the Kitimat Community Foundation, which enables continued support of immediate needs in the community while building long-term stability funds for the future.
The volunteers who have spent months in setting up this telethon truly deserve the thanks, and it benefits all walks of life, but they could use more volunteers. So please reach out to this foundation and help with their incredible work that they've been doing for 43 years.
The Skeena MLA also noted of his recent time with the telethon which this year seemingly had him working his waltzing moves.
On a side note, I've co-hosted this telethon twice. In my first year, they asked me to do 30 push-ups as a fundraiser, which I felt sore from after a few days.
This past year they asked me to learn how to waltz. I prefer push-ups.
The MLA's statement can be viewed below from his Social media stream.
More notes from the Legislature can be explored here.
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