The doors on the Giving Advent Calendar have all opened. We featured 25 local organizations doing great work to support people in our city. They are listed on the right hand side of this page.
Today is more personal. Today we are asking you to do something specifically meaningful to you.
For many of us, there are friends and family members who were at that table last year, or at another table, or working. There were people we had lost touch with, people who were homeless, people we wanted to see but couldn't get to... and this year, as we sat together over dinners for Chanukah, solstice, Christmas, or any of our seasonal celebrations, there were people and furry friends missing. Loved ones who died since we last had seasonal celebrations together or apart. Some absences were recent; some happened earlier in the year and the empty seat or missing wet nose, the knowledge that a seat was empty somewhere else, was a reminder.
Here at the Giving Advent Calendar we are asking you to donate in memory of loved ones you have lost this year. Whatever organization you think is most relevant to you, your family, your friends, those you've lost... whatever is right for you. Sometime between today and December 31, 2015, please donate.
Our family lost many loved ones this year, many to cancer. We have many loved ones enduring the devastation of cancer right now. We will be donating to the Canadian Cancer Society in their memory and in honour of those still enduring the disease.
Today is more personal. Today we are asking you to do something specifically meaningful to you.
For many of us, there are friends and family members who were at that table last year, or at another table, or working. There were people we had lost touch with, people who were homeless, people we wanted to see but couldn't get to... and this year, as we sat together over dinners for Chanukah, solstice, Christmas, or any of our seasonal celebrations, there were people and furry friends missing. Loved ones who died since we last had seasonal celebrations together or apart. Some absences were recent; some happened earlier in the year and the empty seat or missing wet nose, the knowledge that a seat was empty somewhere else, was a reminder.
Here at the Giving Advent Calendar we are asking you to donate in memory of loved ones you have lost this year. Whatever organization you think is most relevant to you, your family, your friends, those you've lost... whatever is right for you. Sometime between today and December 31, 2015, please donate.
Our family lost many loved ones this year, many to cancer. We have many loved ones enduring the devastation of cancer right now. We will be donating to the Canadian Cancer Society in their memory and in honour of those still enduring the disease.
