Eye on Community

CUTOBER IN ITS SOPHOMORE SEASON A local man’s hair-cutting fundraiser in support of the Kamloops Sexual Assault Counselling Centre and the Kamloops branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association was held on Oct. 2.

Save-On Foods staff Ryan Ogden (left) Jay Smith, Neil Allkins, Brooke Nelson, Ameet Singh present a cheque for $7,620 to Kamloops Food Bank director of resource development Corra Gassner and executive director Bernadette Siracky on Thursday (July 15)

And, despite the pandemic, go on it did, with four members holding plant sales in their yards, raising a record $5,300.

The $20,000 cheque will go toward the wildlife park’s completion of the new aquatic rehabilitation areas.

Kiwanis Club of Kamloops secretary Roger Parkes presents a cheque in the amount of $3,057.16 to Big Little Science Centre of Kamloops executive director Gord Stewart.

In partnership with The Stollery Charitable Foundation, the BC Interior Community Foundation presented a grant of $7,995 to Tara Ettinger of the Big Bear Child & Youth Advocacy Centre.

Kamloops Ford donated $7,000 in cash and a van full of toys from its annual Fill A Ford toy drive, where customers, staff and people in the community donated toys for kids and families in Kamloops through the Christmas Amalgamated charity, which puts

Goddyn and Associates co-owners Carol Goddyn (left) and Stacey Vair (right) present a cheque for $3,000 to Kamloops Hospice Association programs and operations manager Erin Gardener.

In October, Apple Auto Glass, Broco Glass and Speedy Glass partnered with the Canadian Cancer Society to support women in their community living with breast cancer through the Drive Pink Campaign.

President Mike Wolansky (right) and past-president Wayne Saboe (left) of Kamloops Elks Lodge 44 presented donations to the following organizations recently: $2,000 to the New Heights Autism Support Society, $3,000 to the Kamloops Food Bank, $2,000 to