The KTW Christmas Cheer Fund is back, with readers of Kamloops This Week helping us help the community.
Charities being supported this year: Y Women’s Emergency Shelter, Kamloops Brain Injury Association, Chris Rose Therapy Centre for Autism, Kamloops Therapeutic Riding Association and the Kamloops chapter of the BC SPCA.
To donate, click on the KTW Christmas Cheer Fund logo on the kamloopsthisweek.com website or go online to bcicf.ca/kamloops-this-week-christmas-cheer-fund. Donations are accepted online thanks to a partnership with the BC Interior Community Foundation. Donations can also be dropped off at the KTW office, at 1365B Dalhousie Dr. Office hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. Cheques should be made out to the BC Interior Community Foundation.
From the pandemic to climate disasters to runaway inflation — it’s been a tough couple of years.
“It’s starting to slow down now,” realtor Nolan Pastoor said. “It’s been a pretty crazy year.”
Having followed the Cheer Fund from when it was at the Kamloops Daily News Pastoor said it gives him an opportunity to give back to the community.
Pastoor and wife Lindsay recently made a donation of $1,500 on behalf of Nolan Pastoor Personal Real Estate.
Seeking new ways to show appreciation for clients during the Christmas season, the couple re-evaluated having the company gift chocolates to clients and, instead, put those dollars, in addition to their own, into an annual donation to the KTW Christmas Cheer Fund.
“It’s important to thank people that support my business, but I looked at the money I spent and thought, ‘Can we be doing something more worthwhile with this?’” he said.
“We’ve been blessed,” Pastoor said. “There are a lot of people that have faced job losses or hours cut back … a lot of people are struggling.”
“For my wife and I, our business has still continued to go along and it’s been another good year. We’re thankful that we have this, that we can give.”
Pastoor said it all comes back to their faith.
“We’re Bible-believing Christians and we believe the word of God,” he said. “He makes it clear in scripture, in the early chapters of Acts, that the church is supposed to live in community.
“If we have more than what we need to live, we need to make sure that we share with others who have need — that’s where it comes from for us; loving our neighbours.”
This year the four charities being helped by your donations are: Y Women’s Emergency Shelter, Kamloops Therapeutic Riding Association, Chris Rose Therapy Centre for Autism and Kamloops Brain Injury Association.
To donate to the Cheer Fund, click on the KTW Christmas Cheer Fund logo at kamloopsthisweek.com, go to bcicf.ca/ kamloops-this-week-christmas-cheer-fund or drop in to KTW’s office at 1365B Dalhousie Dr., weekdays between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
THANK YOU, DONORS!
• BC Old-Time Fiddlers Kamloops branch: $100
• IG Wealth Management: $1,402
• Donald & Kathleen Gienow: $50
• Nel Sarrasin, in memory of Gordin Sarrasin: $100
• Susan & Ron Durant: $100
• John & Val Kemp: $100
• Greg Harris: $50
• Simone Werstiuk, in memory of brother Carmen Werstiuk: $50
• Kim & Andrew Cooper: $150
• IG Wealth Management/Chris Nagle: $500
• Cal & Pat Moulton: $100
• Richard & Terry Taylor: $100
• Nolan Pastoor Real Estate Corporation: $1,500
• Sharlene & Darren McIlwain: $158
• Margaret Sandulak: $100
T• Sarb & Kam Chattu: $100
• Anonymous, in memory of Rose Goar: $50
• Anonymous: $50
• Ed & Dianne Barker: $250
• Anonymous: $50
• Abacus Gardening & Landscaping: $1,000
• Dianne Jackson: $50
• Spencer & Janet Bryson: $200
• Vic & Sally Mowbray: $150
• Jo-Mary & Bob Hunter: $200
• Barbara Eagle: $40
• Jerry & Wendy Patrick: $100
• Wendy Dickson, in memory of Peter Basson & John Healy: $50
• Anonymous, in memory of Dave & Sandy: $100
• Barbara Caswell: $75
• Lorna McMillan & Robin Johnson: $75
• Sharon Moore, in memory of Tom Moore: $100
• Anonymous: $100
• Silvia Olson: $100
• Lynne Totten: $100
• Rick Bennett: $50
• Bea Smith: $50
• Amanda Fenrich, in memory of husband Adam: $100
• Linda Jackson, in memory of George E. Wilmot: $100
• Doris Finlay: $20
• Ian & Margaret Stewart: $100
• Amy Regan: $100
• Teresa & Colman Byrne: $200
• Harriett Chave: $100
• Anonymous: $1,000
• Brenda Fennell: $500
• Mary Dobrovolny: $25
• Shirley Holmes: $50
• Don Whyte & Gail Cameron: $200
• Sharon Cooley: $50, in memory of Ruth Cooley
• Gerry Saunders: $200, in memory of Peter Baron
• Heather & Bingley: $50
• Anonymous: $200
• Marie & Norio Sakaki: $100
• Lois Hollstedt: $250
• Maggie Campbell: $100, in memory of Don
• Mel & Wilda Bronken: $100
• Patricia Hanson: $100
• Shirley Ross: $100
• Sally & Bill Jennejohn: $100
• Anonymous: $100
• Chris Nagle: $100
• Jacques Lamb: $50
• IG Wealth Management: $200
• Linda Rollins: $100
• Rick & Judy Collinge: $100
• Nora Berkhout: $500
• Frances Higginson: $25
• Anonymous: $100
• Twyla-Lea Jensen: $25
• Debbie Fransen: $100, celebrating new grandson Fletcher, love Harm and Deb
• Tiernan Buchan: $100
• Irene Buckle: $200, in memory of Edyn & Mykel Rothenburger
• David Whitson: $100
• Anonymous: $250
• Marg & Terry Bangen: $20
• Anonymous: $100
• Rob & Joyce Buchanan: $100
• Kathy Kendall: $200
• Sue Turner: $200
• Sue & Darren Arndt: $200
• White Wolf Wellness Counselling & Consulting/Sharon Todd: $50
• Marv & Marilyn Peterson: $100
• Anne Wade: $25
• Bea Prehara: $50
• Donna Geefs: $100
• Jean Tash: $50
• Colleen M. Stainton: $200
• Marion Kaban: $100
• Sharon Langland: $100, in memory of Sharon Frampton
• Anonymous: $100, in memory of our parents, Tom & Gloria Stout, and Muriel & Norman Cooper
• Eileen Jones: $100
• Anonymous: $100
• The Hausers: $100
• The Posse: $200
• Sheila Pierson: $100
• Kathie & Brian Andriashyk: $100, in memory of Verna Wasylnka
• The Sallis Family: $360
• Anonymous: $150
• Vic & Dorene Radmacher: $100
• Anonymous: $100
• Tivola Howe: $100, in memory of Marjorie Duck Lehrle
• Cathy Wilcox: $100
• Wayne Murphy: $50
• Don & Debbie Erickson: $100
• Sandra Blakely: $50, in memory of Harvey
• Aileen Murphy: $50
• Cathy McIntosh: $100, in memory of George & Nolan
• Anonymous: $100
• Diana Kopec: $100, in memory of Norman Kopec
• Gordon Gillespie: $100
• Nancy Stewart: $500
• Leanne Knowles: $100
• Kelsey Boudreau: $100
• Andrea Ciccone: $48
• Anonymous: $100
TOTAL: $22,163
