A record donation of $45,000 from Enbridge couldn’t have come at a better time for the Chatham Goodfellows as the volunteer organization faces rising costs.
A record donation of $45,000 from Enbridge couldn’t have come at a better time for the Chatham Goodfellows as the volunteer organization faces rising costs.
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Goodfellows member Tim Haskell said Enbridge initially donated $42,065 from employee and company contributions, then topped it up to $45,000 shortly after.
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Noting the Goodfellows’ great relationship with Enbridge going back to the Union Gas days, he said, “We are truly grateful for our partnership with such a giving company and its employees.
“We are totally left speechless,” he said.
Haskell said many employees with the company have stepped up during the years to organize numerous events that have helped raise much needed dollars for Goodfellows.
He added Enbridge also sends out a team to help pack toy hampers that will be delivered beginning Monday.
This year’s No Child Without a Christmas campaign will be delivered about 1,600 food hampers to families and about 1,300 children will receive toys.
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“Costs have definitely gone up,” Haskell said.
He said last year, the Goodfellows spent well over $200,000 to buy food, toys along with boots and shoes for children.
“We spend more than $30,000 just on turkeys alone,” Haskell said.
Citing the rising costs of food, he said the street sales fundraiser of the Goodfellows’ newspaper, being held Friday and Saturday, is crucial to helping cover the costs to run the annual campaign.
“The Goodfellows are into the home-stretch of this year’s No Child Without a Christmas campaign and we are confident the community will help us make it another great one,” Haskell said.
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