50+ encourages giving
The St. Albert 50+ Club is always looking for ways that it can help local seniors who might be alone or isolated throughout the year. Now that the holidays are upon us, the club is looking for public support to help offer stocking stuffers as a way of showing seniors in need that the community cares.
People are encouraged to make cash donations for the club to purchase gift cards.
Please call 780-459-0433 (ext. 0) or see the front desk reception for more details. The 50+ Club is located at 7 Taché Street.
St. Albert Stop Abuse in Families has its own ways for people to make the world a better place. It has a donation program with different levels of support for various services that the agency provides:
• $25 funds purchases for its resource centre, including books, pamphlets, brochures and other educational items
• $50 pays for one hour of individualized counselling for a woman, man, or youth dealing with family violence
• $100 funds the development of a detailed safety plan for a family fleeing domestic violence
• $250 provides group counselling for one evening
SAIF is grateful for all of the support that the community provides throughout the year. It has been offering help to families dealing with abuse for 25 years. It offers support groups and provides educational prevention programs to schools and groups in our community.
To make a donation or to learn more, please call 780-289-4090 or visit www.stopabuse.ca.
The St. Albert Public Library offers some unique ways for people to help provide a broader array of reading materials. For $50, anyone can sponsor a book or a magazine subscription in their own name or as a gift in someone else’s name. Names are then put on a bookplate for the inside cover of books, or on the plastic sleeve of the current issue of each magazine.
Tax receipts are mailed out.
For more information, please call the library at 780-459-1530 or visit www.sapl.ca.
First, there was the Fill-a-Bus in support of the St. Albert Kinettes’ Christmas Hamper program. That was on Dec. 6.
On Dec. 13, St. Albert Transit and Diversified Transportation held the first ever Fill-A-Bus to help stock the shelves at the St. Albert Food Bank. Shoppers at both city Save-On Foods locations donated a whopping 1,650 kg of non-perishable food to the cause. Organizers would like to thank everyone for their support.
The event is anticipated to return in 2015.
