18 Wheels of Christmas

Save-On-Foods Waldenerful!!!!!!

Huge WOW!!!! To Doug and his staff. The tools were given to us to create a game show using the residents from the wonderful community of Walden.  We were given a prize wheel with Save-On-Foods More Rewards program points. Each donation gave a chance to spin the wheel for points. Everyone a winner! We had two radio stations on hand, 101.5 Kool FM was giving away a chance to win tickets to the premiere of The Interview and 95.3 The Peak a chance to win tickets to the One Republic concert in April.

Skippy our Elf and his Mrs. we call her Skipette were a team to be reckoned with. Most everyone who came through the doors was enticed by this team to donate, spin and put their names in for the draws. Even babies had the chance!!!!!

Santa’s appearance had a child’s eyes glued to him in wide eyed wonderment.

The generous residents of Walden filled 14 food collection boxes. There were 126 pre-packaged hampers sold and donated. Cash for baby food. A huge surprise for us at the end of our 6 hour stint was 1/3 of a skid of baby food donated by Heinz.

The only downer for this location was unfortunately Jordan from Kool FM. He was approached by a young lad who had purchased gum drops to be shared by the radio personalities Rayane, Lucas and the DJ Taylor Daniels. But no, Jordan the "Grinch In Training" spoke for everyone and told the youngster "no thank you" leaving the boy brokenhearted. Here comes Dad to the rescue explain his son had purchased this especially for them so once again candy was offered and this time everyone except Jordan shared the sweets. Jordan received a bag of coal.

This year is the first that we have 101.5 Kool FM and 95.3 The Peak on hand to help us collect more donations for the Calgary Food Bank.  We are so grateful to have them and Save-On-Foods to help us give to those in need this Christmas.