Eye on Community

The Kiwanis Club of Kamloops celebrated the last day of spring — June 19 —with a spring yard clean-up at the Kamloops Child Development Centre in North Kamloops.

BC Interior Community Foundation executive director Rob Miller (left) and director Kathy Humphreys present Kamloops Brain Injury Association executive director Dave Johnson (right) with a cheque for $35,569.76. The donation will see $1,063.

Members of the Bible Truth Church donated 500 pairs of socks, 1,000 granola bars and 1,000 juice boxes to the Mustard Seed Kamloops, the social agency on West Victoria Street that helps the city’s marginalized community.

BC Interior Community Foundation director Kathy Humphreys (left) and executive director Rob Miller (right) present Kamloops Symphony Society executive director Daniel Mills with a cheque for $41,588.55.

The annual CanGo Grannies Plant Sale at Gaglardi Square had to be cancelled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bernadette Siracky, executive director of Kamloops Food Bak (left), receives a cheque for $13,094 on behalf of the Stollery Foundation through BC Interior Community Foundation past-president Hugh Fallis and executive director Robert Miller.

Kamloops Toys R Us/Babies R Us staffers deliver baby essentials to the Kamloops Food Bank as part of national program worth more than $60,000 to support local charities and Canadian parents.

Presenting Royal Inland Hospital Foundation financial director Denise Bernauer (centre) with a cheque for $2,000 is Moose Lodge 1552 member and Kamloops Coun. Bill Sarai (left) and junior governor Dave Moonen.

The Canadian Institute of Mining South Central Branch in Kamloops donated $7,500 to the Kamloops Food Bank and $500 to the BC SPCA for those who are in need the most right now.

Kamloops Ford Lincoln recently donated $1,250 to the ICCHA Wish Foundation, which will go directly toward cardiac care improvements at Royal Inland Hospital.