KidSport was the big winner at Family Fun Day
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Updated: July 22, 2009 10:46 AM
Family Fun Day at Centennial Park turned out to be just that — and then some.
The People Who Care organization held the huge free event on July 18 to raise money for the 100 Mile House chapter of KidSport BC.
The main event was a plastic duck race on Bridge Creek, which drummed up $3,770 with the sale of 754 ducks.
Other activities like rides in the RE/MAX hot air balloon helped push the total after expenses to $5,000.
Karen Weightman, who helped put on the event, said her group chose KidSport as the beneficiary
after learning that requests from that organization for assistance had gone up recently.
KidSport pays expenses for organized sport for youth whose families can’t meet the costs.
“We felt it was important to support KidSport because the economy has the number of applicants a lot higher than in the past. We found that people in the community were buying duck race tickets just because they thought it was a worthwhile cause,” said Weightman.
Winners of the duck race collected cash prizes but the first prize winner of $750 chose to donate the money back to KidSport.
“She asked to remain anonymous and said it was a really good cause,” said Weightman.
The second place winner, Linda Rhyal, took home $500 cash and Jessica Scherrer won $250 as third prize.
Fun Day attracted about 2,500 people, which Weightman said was about 500-600 shy of last year’s attendance. She blamed the lack of a flea market, which was a hit at the 2008 event. The decision to omit the market was because of a lack of volunteers. The children’s water slide was also cancelled for the same reason.
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