Christmas at Shepherds of Good Hope

This past Tuesday was Christmas, and here at Shepherds of Good Hope it is quite the occasion.  I arrived with my son, Josh and we had a fantastic time greeting everyone.

 

We had a choir perform and just like every year, we had our very own Santa there!

Christmas Lunch at Good Day Workshop

Yesterday I had the pleasure of enjoying a delicious turkey lunch with all the fixins with the gang from Good Day Workshop.

We had a fantastic time with staff, volunteers, donors and participants.

I must thank the Delta Hotel for serving the meal and cooking 15 turkeys from the Good Day Workshop.  They also made delicious dressing and Gravy.  Thanks to Sister Maureen, Divine Infant CWL and friends of Ruth and Bob Benwell.

It was absolutely fantastic! Thank you!

Having a great day with CBC

Today is going just fantastic!  It's only 1:33pm and CBC has raised over $50,000 for Shepherds of Good Hope!

It's absolutely great to see the community of Ottawa coming together to show support for the most vulnerable people in our city, especially at this time of year when our clients need to know they haven't been forgotten.

We kicked off the day out at Tunney's Pasture on a double decker OCTranspo bus.  I had a wonderful time and we managed to fit 3 musical acts on there as well.  Jim Watson also made an appearance to draw the name for Leonard Cohen tickets to one lucky donor!

Here is Robin from Ottawa Morning and I outside this morning :)

After the show, I made my way down to the studio to join Kathleen Petty in the studio for Ontario Today to discuss what makes our donors so important.

 

Such an exciting day, and it's not even over yet!

2012 CBC Charity Drive

We are ever so grateful here at Shepherds of Good Hope for the amount of support we have received from CBC over these past couple of weeks!

There has been constant coverage on CBC Ottawa about all we do here at Shepherds of Good Hope and we couldn't be more thankful to all of those involved!

Tomorrow will be completely dedicated to raising funds for all of our programs and I am extremely excited to be a part of it!

To kick it off, I will be joining the Ottawa Morning gang at Tunney's Pasture on a double decker OCTranspo bus at 5:30am.  Make sure you tune in to CBC 91.5 at 6:20am to hear my scheduled interview.

Thanks to all of our supporters and thank you to CBC.  Looking forward to spending the day with you!