Tonights the Night!

Hi everybody. 
I am so excited writing this.  Tonight is the night! 

Our tenth annual auction is tonight in the town of Qu'Appelle.  We are so excited.  We have more door prizes than we ever had.  We have fantastic prizes for the "gussied up gals".  Our auction items are divine.  Our support base is fantastic.  We had a crew of about 25 people working last night setting up and getting ready.  It looks amazing in the hall.  Guys on the ladders, in the kitchen and overall turning the place into a pink party extravaganza! 

But to keep it in perspective we had an applicant to help in the mist of all of this.  A woman, single, living on social services because her EI disability ran out and living on 755 dollars a month.  Because FFOH is not (and can't be) an advocacy group, we can only change her world not the world we all share. She has lymphoma now because of the removal of her lymph nodes which stops her from lifting her arm.  And in the line of work she is in she needs her arms.  We are going to help her, to the tune of about 4000 dollars over the next six months and invite her to contact us again if she needs to. 

Please consider, especially if you are self employed, some form of critical care coverage.  Do your homework and find the right product.   Find it while you are young so the premiums are lower.  It can happen to you. 

But back to happy!  Because of the generous spirit of the folks around us we can say yes to this woman and many more just like her.  Yeah!

And to spotlight the loyalty and care of the folks who help us, here is another story.  One of our sponsors called one of our members apologising yesterday for the late-ness of their donation.  It seems that he had been working on it for several months but after being diagnosed with cancer last year and working on it all through his chemo he just didn't have the energy to get it completed earlier.  But they hoped it wasn't too late and asked us to come and pick it up.  Now that is dedication! 

I have no idea what we all did to deserve this level of support, but I am so grateful that we have it. 

So if you have tickets get your party dress out, bring your wallet and come ready to party!  We can't wait to see you all.  And if you can't come to this, keep our fall event in mind!  We have tickets on sale today. 

Thank you to all of you for the reads and support!