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Sep 11, 20 •
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By Bruce Corcoran The virtual Festival of Giving is literally only a few weeks away. Sounds strange, doesn’t it? But that’s the reality this year. The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year resulted in the postponement in the ever-popular...
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Jul 17, 20 •
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Better safe than sorry for huge fundraising event By Bruce Corcoran COVID-19 has sucker punched many a charitable event this year, but the folks at the Children’s Treatment Centre are punching back. After delaying their annual Festival of Giving event from...
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Feb 12, 20 •
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For folks who remember me from when I first moved to Chatham-Kent, I had a mullet. Yes, that 1980s haircut that said “business in the front, party in the back.” Not long after our daughter’s arrival and penchant for grabbing onto my longer hair to give...
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Jan 22, 20 •
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Fun, Fergie, fundraising and beer flowed Friday, as this year’s Festival of Giving theme was revealed. The Festival, a huge fundraiser for the Children’s Treatment Centre of Chatham-Kent (CTCCK), takes place April 18 with the theme of “I Want my MTV,”...
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Apr 16, 19 •
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CKSY’s Chris McLeod and CKXS’s Greg Hetherington helped to auction some of this year’s items at the Festival of Giving, including a guitar signed by David Bowie and borrowing RM/Sotheby’s Batmobile for 24 hours. Held at the John D. Bradley...
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Jan 10, 18 •
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The British are coming to invade Chatham this April. No, it’s not a revival of the U.S. Revolutionary War, but this British Invasion is the theme for this year’s Festival of Giving fundraiser for the Children’s Treatment Centre of Chatham-Kent. This...
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Apr 19, 17 •
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One thing you might have noticed that was conspicuously missing in the past couple of weeks was this column. Well, there are indeed times when this piece doesn’t make the paper, especially when there are just too many stories that we had to get in the paper...
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Apr 11, 17 •
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More than 1,000 guests and volunteers crashed into the John D. Bradley Convention Centre for the 16th annual Festival of Giving, raising $268,000 in the process. The Children’s Treatment Centre Foundation of Chatham-Kent, and several other charities...
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Mar 15, 17 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Viewpoint • Mary Beth Corcoran • No Comments
For 17 years, a dedicated group of volunteers and seriously creative committee members have been putting Chatham on the map with an event that is unique, big and bold … oh, and it raises a serious amount of money for a very worthwhile children’s charity....
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Apr 20, 16 •
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As I type this, I’m still tired … from the annual Festival of Giving. The yearly fundraiser party put on by the Foundation of the Children’s Treatment Centre of Chatham-Kent is always a blast. This year was no different, even though the theme and I...
