Wrapping Up

Well here we are - August. Late August! "Where did the summer go!" seems to be the comment in the air everywhere I turn. As everyone knows now, we are very close to reaching our 'goal' of $36,000. We have had some donations come in this month that had now pushed up to our goal I'm sure and with a couple remaining fundraiser items & an event to wrap up, we will be completely done fundraising for the park by September's end. An entire year ahead of schedule! Simply amazing.
One donation we received this month came from Darci @ Enigma Salon (click on it to go to the site- it's great!) Darci is Grant's hairdresser and her salon completed a cut-a-thon and donated to proceeds to the park! THANKS DARCI!!
The second very large fundraising effort that happened this month was at the Saskatoon Bluecross office on 2nd ave. They held a 'casual day' last week and then today took in office donations on a lottery ticket raffle. The 2 events raised close to $1000. I cannot express in words how deeply thankful we are to all those that have supported this park. So big thanks to the Staff Committee at Bluecross Saskatoon and to Michelle Huber & Trena Pfefferle for their work today! And of course everyone in Group Claims and throughout the organization that have been so extremely supportive.
As I update the fundraiser balance over September, I hope to create a more complete listing of everyone that has helped.

This weekend will be the 'park build'.
It will get underway likely Thursday night or Friday a.m. with the Town Foreman prepping the site. On Friday the Blue Imp equipment will arrive (see park picture from earlier blogs). The Little Tikes equipment is already in town. Saturday we will be drilling holes and putting everything together. Then we will mix cement and fill the holes, then spread the pea gravel. Hopefully everything will go much quicker than I am expecting (we've been lucky so far!!) and perhaps mostly everything will be done by Sat night and the Monday Grand Opening celebration will actually include the kids getting to try out the equipment!Either way, on Monday we are having a celebration and everyone is invited! ESPECIALLY those with pre-school aged kiddies. From 1-3 we will be having snacks and a concert performed by Saskatchewan's own children's entertainer Sylvia Chave! (click on her name to check her out!) This promises to be a lot of fun, and a great opportunity for people to come see where their donations have gone! Not to mention, a great way to get all the families and children from town together!