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Help Donations to the Abbeyfield Building Fund may be sent to: Area A Seniors Housing Project Box 264 Madeira Park BC V0N 2H0 |
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& Sail Squadron Navigates Oktoberfest on behalf of Abbeyfield! The oompa music is still fresh in the minds of a full house of Pender Harbour residents and their guests who enjoyed the German tradition of Oktoberfest on Oct. 18. With the able assistance of “Hans” Stewart, the Pender Harbour Power & Sail Squadron hosted the event with all profits being donated to the Area “A” Senior’s Housing Society’s Abbeyfield building fund. With traditional Bavarian fare including sauerkraut and sausages along with the foot tapping music of the band “Blue Buds,” a winning combination was almost guaranteed. When home baked pretzels and the entertaining antics of “three-legged dancer” Frank Roosen were added, the evening was easily pushed “over the top.” In addition to the profits from the event being donated to Abbeyfield, a 50/50 draw and auction increased the fund-raising aspect of the evening. As proof of the quality of the pretzels, two giant pretzels brought over $100 during the auction! Perhaps the biggest surprise of the evening, however, was the attendance of members of the parish of St. Andrew who had named Abbeyfield as the recipient of their recent “Songs for Abbeyfield” concert on October 12th. A cheque in the amount of $2000 was presented to the Area “A” Senior’s Housing Society on behalf of the church. The Health Centre Auxiliary made a public announcement that their income from the Bargain Barn for the month of October is earmarked for Abbeyfield and urged public support in this regard. Pender Harbour
is a small community with a big heart! The words “Harbour Spirit”
are indicative of what has been accomplished in the past and what may
be in store for the future. We need a seniors’ facility to accommodate
those who do not wish to leave our community. Let’s keep the ball
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for Abbeyfield A fundraising concert for the Abbeyfield Building Fund Sunday, October 12th - 2:30 pm Tickets $20.00 St. Andrews Anglican Church, 12856 Harbour View Road, Madeira Park For more information call 604-883-9927 Tickets available at Copper Sky Gallery and Café and at Harbour Insurance, Madeira Park Three voices—one
common cause. Penny Lang emerged on the North American music scene in the 1960s. Her powerful interpretations and originals in folk, blues, country and gospel have gained her a large and devoted following as “a superb singer of sardonic folk material...(she is) hugely entertaining” wrote The Toronto Star. Her songs are emotionally powerful observations of the human condition, sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious, mostly memorable. Penny now calls Madeira Park home. Edmund Arceo moved from the Philippines to Canada in 1998 and has been a resident of Garden Bay for the past three years. He joined the Suncoast Singers when the group formed two years ago and has regularly performed as a soloist in the choir's concerts. Edmund participated in this year's Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts and received the award for outstanding vocal performance in the adult vocal category. Celia Howard studied vocal performance at Western University in Ontario and branched out of classical music and opera to musical theatre productions. She enjoyed numerous roles over the years in musical theatre including; Maria in Sound of Music, Nancy in Oliver, and Mother Superior in Nunsense I and II, to name a few. Celia also enjoyed the experience of directing children in theatre and musical productions. Celia is currently one of the pastors at St. Andrews Anglican Church in Madeira Park. St. Andrew’s
Anglican Church in Pender Harbour promotes and produces a yearly production
to support a local fundraising event. This year’s concert is a fundraising
event for the Abbeyfield Building Fund managed by the Area A Seniors Housing
Project, a registered non-profit society. The society hopes to raise 1.5
million to build a supported-living facility in Lily Lake Village in Pender
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Abbeyfield Activities abound in Summer 2008! Area A Seniors Housing has been busy this summer and fall! In August, a delightful “Picnic in the Park” added a new dimension to Pender Harbour Music Society’s 2008 Chamber Music Festival. Featuring cold meats, salads and a fantastic array of desserts, the meal was enjoyed by enthusiastic concert attendees on a lovely day in a beautiful setting. In September, Seniors Housing members operated a snack booth at the 12th Annual Pender Harbour Jazz Festival. Set up at Pender Harbour Landing. the booth sold out of all of its chips, home-baked cookies, and pop by concert’s end. The wonderful music and great weather brought a huge crowd to the site, and the snacks went fast—we’ll bring more next year! Two more
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Going to Be Busy! The Area A Seniors Housing Project has a whole summer full of fun events scheduled! We began the season with a great float in the May Day parade depicting our “Abbey” surrounded by the construction materials for the Abbeyfield House. It won First Place in the organizations category! CANCELLED
Dinner/Dance/Live
and Silent Auctions. Watch
for our raffle tickets on July 18-19 for a generously donated giant moss
basket and two planters. Prudential
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in the Park at the PH Chamber Music Festival August 16, 2008 Designed to be both a fun outdoor event for the community and a complement to the Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival, the Picnic in the Park will feature a delicious spread on the grounds of Madeira Park’s Millennium Park (the Government Wharf). The location makes it central in the Harbour and is an easy walk from the Music School. Offered between 4:30 and 7:00 PM on Saturday, Chamber Music fans will not miss a beat while supporting seniors housing in Pender. Tickets are available at Harbour Insurance, Sechelt Visitors Centre, through the Chamber Music Festival, or at the door. $15 for adults, $10 for children. Not just for Festival attendees – all are welcome. |
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Meals Gets Lots of Support Linda Curtiss, originator of the Society’s Outreach Healthy Meals Project, was pleased to receive two donations from the Pender Harbour Lions Club, proceeds from the Pancake Breakfast the Lions held on Easter Sunday. The Lions donated $1000 to the Outreach Healthy Meals program and $1000 to the building fund for the Pender Harbour Abbeyfield House. John Forward, President of the Lions Club, thanked Lafarge Cement whose generous sponsorship of the Breakfast made it possible for the Lions to donate all the proceeds to worthy projects in the community. |
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Outreach Healthy Meals project also was the beneficiary of two other donations
recently. The Royal Canadian Legion continued its support for the project
by donating a further $500 from the proceeds of its weekly meat-draws
and $1500 was received from the Million Dollar Round Table Foundation.
Rick Parranto, London Life Financial Security Advisor and member of the
MDRF, sponsored the application. The money will be used to cover operating
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Draw Winner - Fred Coulter (Road Runner Plumbing)
Lucky draw winners of the first Abbeyfield, Dinner for Donors campaign. The evening was a great success, with hosts and guests enjoying "fine dining" for eight complete with "appys". Dinner fare included Ceasar Salad, Prime Rib Roast with Yorkshire Pudding and Gravy, roasted vegetables, garlic mashed potatoes plus a "lite" dessert! The team at Prudential Pender cooked enthusiastically, served with flare and tidied up, leaving the guests with only conversation to create! |
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Progress for Pender Harbour Abbeyfield House Area A Seniors Housing board member Louise Berg was happy to announce that the proceeds of the Abbeyfield Christmas ornament project, run in conjunction with the Pender Harbour branch of the Sunshine Coast Credit Union, netted $1751 for the building fund. Ms. Berg noted that most of the inscriptions on the ornaments indicated they were donated to honour friends or family members who had passed away, although living honorees were also encouraged. A permanent record of donations and honorees is being kept in ‘Abbey’s Honour Book’ which will be on display in the Abbeyfield lobby when the House is built. The
Abbeyfield House got another Christmas present in the form of a donation
of $5000 from the Rasmussen Foundation. This is a private foundation headquartered
in Edmonton Alberta that has a special interest in housing projects. “The
fact that grantors from around the country have found the Pender Harbour
Abbeyfield House a worthy recipient of their grant dollars is very encouraging,”
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Winner in the Dinners for Donors campaign announced! Members of the Board of Area A Seniors Housing gathered at the Prudential Sussex Realty office in Pender Harbour on Saturday, Jan. 12 to watch as realtors Patti Gaudet and Teresa Sladey drew the name of the first lucky donor to win a gourmet meal for 8 to be cooked for him at a time and place of his choosing by the realtors of the Pender Harbour office. And the lucky winner was local resident Fred Coulter of Road Runner Plumbing. Fred had previously “bought a brick” by donating $100 to the Abbeyfield House building fund through the Pender Harbour Prudential Sussex Dinners for Donors program and his name along with the names of the other donors went into the hat for the draw. Fifty “bricks” have now been sold, which represents a $5,000 contribution to the Abbeyfield building fund. The Prudential Sussex Realty Pender Harbour Team launched this fund-raising campaign to assist the Area A Seniors Housing Project in their efforts to build an Abbeyfield House in Madeira Park. Their goal is to raise $50,000, which is enough to build the foundation for the Abbeyfield House and they are doing it one brick at a time. So, if you want to help, just buy a “brick” for $100 and your name will be entered into the next draw. For every 50 bricks sold, a name is drawn and that person wins a dinner for 8, provided, cooked and served in his or her home by the Prudential Sussex Realty Pender Harbour Team. Donations of $1,000 or more automatically win a Dinner for 8! If a dinner doesn’t work for you, you can request a lunch, take-away picnic, BBQ, or an extra special gift basket. They are flexible (they are also very good cooks!). |
To date, one $1000 donation has been received but the donor has asked to remain anonymous. This generous donor has also given his (or maybe it’s her) prize to a friend who will have a chance to sample the culinary talents of the Prudential Sussex realtors very soon, as will Fred Coulter when he picks a date for his feast. In addition, the realtors are running monthly silent auctions in their Pender Harbour office. The next one will be held in February with the auction item being a set of his & hers Roots watches donated by Bill & Shannon Reid. Bids will close on this item at 5:00 PM on the last day of February, at which time the lucky bidder will be notified. So what is an Abbeyfield House? The Abbeyfield model of seniors housing originated over 40 years ago in the United Kingdom. At present there are 21 operating houses in western Canada and 4 under construction. The Pender Harbour Abbeyfield House will provide rental accommodations (bed-sitting room with attached bathroom) for 10 elderly seniors who are not in need of full-time nursing care in a homey, non-institutionalized atmosphere. There will be common areas, including lounges, dining room, kitchen, and laundry room. A live-in house coordinator will be responsible for providing home-cooked meals and looking after everyday needs. The Society has set its fund-raising goal at $1.5 million and hopes to break ground and start building in 2010. Cheques for donations should be made payable to “Area A Seniors Housing Project” and can be sent to Prudential Sussex Realty, PO Box 98, Madeira Park, BC V0N 2H0. Tax receipts are available, so be sure to include your address, so a receipt can be mailed to you. For further information, call (604) 883-9525 or ask any Prudential Sussex Realty Pender Harbour agent. |
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Raffle Prizes Delight Winners After the drawing of names on August 25, the Area A Seniors Housing Project brought their highly successful raffle to a close with the presentation of prizes on September 8 at Lily Lake Village Seniors Activity Centre. Greta Richter of Vancouver will now be covering her bed with a beautiful queen-size quilt fashioned by the Pender Harbour Piecemakers. Denise Scoular will be bringing the limited edition print by Motoko to her Halfmoon Bay home, and Lorna Klein of Sechelt will enjoy the luxury of a weekend under the pampering care of Rockwater Secret Cove Resort. Although none of the winners live in the Harbour, all have ties to the area. Greta Richter has a sister here, Denise Scoular works here, and Lorna Klein has her heart here. In fact Lorna’s in-laws celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary at the old Ole’s Cove Restaurant which has now become Rockwater where, using her prize, she and her husband plan to celebrate their 49th anniversary! The raffle brought the Seniors Housing group nearly $6,000 closer to their goal of building an Abbeyfield House in Pender Harbour. |
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The Prudential Sussex Realty Pender Harbour Team is launching a fund-raising campaign to assist the Area A Seniors Housing Project in their efforts to build an Abbeyfield House in Madeira Park. In fact, you could say they are going to provide the foundation for the house – literally! They plan to raise $50,000, which is approximately what the foundation will cost and they are going to do it one brick at a time. So, if you want to help, just buy a “brick” for $100 and your name (on the brick) will be entered into a draw. For every 50 bricks sold, a name (on a brick) will be drawn and that person will win a dinner for 8, provided, cooked and served in his or her home by the Prudential Sussex Realty Pender Harbour Team. Donations of $1,000 or more will automatically win a Dinner for 8! If a dinner doesn’t work for you, you can request a lunch, take-away picnic, BBQ, or an extra special gift basket. They are flexible (they are also very good cooks!). This campaign will get its official launch under the Prudential tent at the upcoming Mayday celebrations in Pender Harbour, where they will also have a “pick your prize” raffle operating with lots of great prizes donated by the Realty team. Representatives from the Area A Seniors |
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Housing Project will be there, too, to answer your questions and update you on the amazing progress made to date. So drop by on May 19th. Look for the Prudential Sussex tent. “Bricks” will be available for sale at the Prudential Sussex Realty office in Madeira Park, where they will also be holding a monthly silent auction. Each month there will be one item to bid on. Bids will close on that item at 5:00 PM on the last day of the month, at which time the lucky bidder will be notified. Cheques for donations should be made payable to “Area A Seniors Housing Project” and can be sent to Prudential Sussex Realty, PO Box 98, Madeira Park, BC V0N 2H0. Tax receipts are available, so be sure to include your address, so a receipt can be mailed to you. For further information, call (604) 883-9525 or ask any Prudential Sussex Realty Pender Harbour agent. |
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Louise Berg of the Area A Seniors Housing Board is spearheading a raffle to benefit the Pender Harbour Abbeyfield House. Winners will take home some exceptional prizes! First prize is a queensize quilt fashioned by the Pender Harbour Piecemakers valued at $1200. The second prize is a beautiful limited edition print of koi by accomplished local artist Motoko, worth $620.Third prize is a splurge weekend at Rockwater Secret Cove Resort featuring a night in luxury tent accommodations, a buffet breakfast and a massage each for two people valued at $570. We
are hoping to raise $10,000 by the drawing date in August. Tickets are
$5 each or 5 for $20. With a purchase of 10 tickets at $40, 2 tickets
are essentially free, AND you will also get a free membership in the Area
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Poppy Fund Gives $2000 to Area A Seniors Housing Royal Canadian Legion Branch 112 donated $2000 from its Poppy Fund drive to the Area A Seniors Housing Project for the Pender Harbour Abbeyfield House. Pat Wood, shown here giving the check to Seniors Housing chairman Paul Cuppen, explained that special care is taken with funds derived from the Poppy campaign and special permission had to be obtained to allow a donation in excess of $1000. |
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Estate Foundation Pledges $100,000 British Columbia’s Real Estate Foundation has donated $100,000 to the Area A Seniors Housing Project for the construction of the Pender Harbour Abbeyfield House. This is the first large donation to the project after the gift of the land by developer Ryan Campbell. The Seniors Housing group plans to devote some of the money to developing construction plans for the new building and hopes this gift will act as a catalyst to attract other large donations. |
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Pender Harbour realtors Carol Reid (left) and Alan Stewart (right) present a grant for $100,000 from the Real Estate Foundation of BC for the Abbeyfield House project to Paul Cuppen, chairman and Anky Drost, director, Area A Senior's Housing Project. |
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House Now on Firm Ground! The Area A Seniors Housing Project has formally received title to Lot 1 in Lily Lake Village from developer Ryan Campbell. The complicated legal workings have been completed and the group now has ownership of the land that will be the site of the future Pender Harbour Abbeyfield House. The lot has been valued in excess of $300,000 and comes with full electrical, water and sewage hookups. This is a monumental step in the process of building the House and, along with the preparation of a business plan and preliminary architect’s drawings, provides a firm basis from which to launch a major fundraising campaign. |
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Plays Santa The Sunshine Coast Credit Union helped Area A Seniors Housing Project raise $382 through a sale of Christmas ornaments at the Pender Harbour branch in December 2006. |
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Fundraising News for November 2006 • Royal Canadian Legion Branch 112 donated $600 for the Outreach Healthy Meals program • Don Fraser is building a herb garden for use in meal preparation • The Sunshine Coast Credit Union donated $2100 to facilitate the purchase of environmentally and user-friendly dishes and coolers for the delivery of the meals • Bridge players donate a portion of their weekly table fee to Pender Harbour’s Abbeyfield House, $720 to date! |
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and Dessert Sale 2006's Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival was enriched (or at least it contained more calories!) by the addition of a book and dessert sale sponsored by the Area A Seniors Housing Project. New and used books were sold from 10AM to 10PM, accompanied by cookies and bars in the morning and moving into more “elegant” fare in the late afternoon and evening. Both were well received, adding another dimension to the popular late summer music festival and putting another $1500 into the Pender Harbour Abbeyfield building fund. |
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First Annual Golf Tournament The May Texas Scramble Golf Tournament and dinner held at the Pender Harbour Golf Club was very enjoyable and successful, netting $1600 for the Pender Harbour Abbeyfield building fund. Many thanks to the committee led by Linda Curtiss for organizing this fun event, and to all the volunteers and prize donors for making it work! |
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$20,000 Raised in July 2005 Many of you will already know that we raised almost $20,000 for our building fund last July when we held the dinner/dance and silent auction. Thanks again to all those who made it possible. Pictured are Board member Louise Berg and some of the folks at her table. |
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2005 Fundraising News! CMHC
Grant Gives Helping Hand "This is something to be proud of. This grant also represents the first official recogition for our Abbeyfield project," said chairperson Paul Cuppen. "Now begins the big job of raising funds to build Pender Harbour Abbeyfield House." Using these
funds, the Society hired Mobius Architects to create a design
for the Abbeyfield House that will suit the location and meet the needs
of the community. The Society also developed a business plan - an essential
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