DONATIONS

To anyone who comes to this page, first we'd like to thank you.   Thank you for caring enough to see if there is a way you can help.   Donations can now be made online, using a credit card or a PayPal account, by clicking on this button:

We have a Wish List.
Click and see how you can make a difference.   Thank you!
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If you are happier sticking to cheques, that is fine, too.   They also give us the flexibility to acquire what the youth staying with us really need most at the moment and can be mailed to, or dropped off at:
CHOICES
59 Townline
Orangeville, ON
L9W 1V5
Support for Choices Youth Shelter
Choices Youth Shelter received an $850 donation from the Orangeville Chapter of the BNI to help fund the expansion from 14 to 18 beds at the centre. The funds will be used towards the installation of a fire alarm system that is required for the centre to obtain the permit for the expansion. Choices administrator Mary Vervoort received the donation from BNI chapter president Janet Sammut (Two Women with a Paint Brush).

Also pictured here are Brian Phillips (Royal LePage Realty), Jeff Peters (Town Auto Sales), John Bryan (photographer), Lorie Martin Pessot (KitchENvision), John DeForest (CMS Heating and Cooling), Kirsten Plester (Centum Reliance Mortgages), Catherine Torrance (Savvy Staging), Elaine Stone-Moss (Living Spaces Magazine), Phil Cattermole (NorthGate Building Services), Danielle DuBois (DuBois SBMS) and Chris Parkinson (Headwaters Insurance). Absent are Marg Anquetil (Interiors by Decorating Den), John Martin (Home Services) and Don Goertzen (TKS Financial).




Orangeville Banner
March 9, 2007







THANK YOU BNI!






Now Shopper's Drug Mart customers can help us to pay for medications and first aid supplies needed for our residents by donating your Shopper's Optimum Points to CHOICES Youth Shelter.  Just click this link to see how:
Donate Points
The kids keep eating, so we can always use more canned goods, meat for the freezer, cheese, frozen vegetables, milk, and pasta sauce.   We also need laundry and dish soap, bleach, and paper products.     If you can help us with any of these needs, there will be an immediate and welcome benefit to all the youth who come to us.   If you would like to make a long term commitment, consider taking one of these ongoing needs and making it yours to supply.

Some of the items that we use up on a regular basis are:
    • Two bags of milk per week
    • One to two jugs of bleach per month
    • Large garbage bags (and/or tags for our extra bags)
    • Paper towels, plastic wrap, and sandwich bags
    • 500g cheese slices per week (actually, this would be a luxury)
    • 500g lunch meat per week (ditto)
We have a pair of angels who have been bringing our "family" a complete dinner for ten, faithfully, once a week for more than three years now.   They mean so much to us (you know who you are!), and have stayed with us through good times and bad.   You could make that kind of difference, too.   If you feel like cooking up a storm one day, just give us a call to let us know you are coming.   Don't worry, if you leave your containers with us, we will wash them (one of our residents' chores) and look after them until you can pick them up.   Just make sure we have your name and phone number!

If you come in person, the office door is the front one and the Residence entrance is the one at the side of the house.   Office hours are normally from 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday, and Residence hours 4:30 pm - 8:30 am daily.   That is the best way to get things to us.   We make use of everything, and we are happy to give tax receipts for "in kind" donations as well as for money.   When in doubt, feel free to phone and ask.   We love getting to know you, anyway!

We are happy to report that the Rotary Club of Palgrave have stepped forward for a second year, with the cooperation of Zehrs, Orangeville, to provide our residents with frozen juice.   We send a huge "thank you" to all who are involved in making this happen.   Being able to meet the nutritional needs of the youth who come to us for help makes us happy and keeps them healthy.  Zehrs also helps us in other ways when they can, and we appreciate all the help.

If it is time you have to offer, there's always something that needs doing!   Please see our Volunteering page.

Once again, Thank you for your interest in the homeless youth of our area.   They are worth it, and people like you are what makes it possible to help them!
 
 
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