Family & Peer Support Group Xmas Dinner
Posted by Chris Offer
on Dec 09, 2012
Christmas dinner for 110 - no problem for Rotary!!
Thanks to all who helped today and thanks to the club for funding this Christmas Dinner on December 9th, and a really big thank you to Brad Cooper who started cooking the turkeys at 9:00 AM, and he went at it all day right thru to 6:00 pm, prepping and cooking the stuffing, the ham, potatoes, rutabaga mash, and carrots.
We had 85 guests, from South and North Delta, persons with disabilities and family members, plus we had about 25 volunteers (Rotarians, family and friends) for a total of 110 people. We served turkey, dressing, ham, mash potatoes, mashed turnips, carrots, gravy, salads, cranberry sauce, coffee, punch and home baked desserts.
As always, this group of people and their families were very thankful for what we do. For some of them, it is their main Christmas dinner and they really do appreciate it. Save On Foods donated very large turkeys this year and we were able to package up about 35 take home meals of leftover turkey, ham, stuffing and mash potatoes this year.
Thank you once again for a job more than well done by the members of the Rotary Club of Ladner, it was a real team effort from a lot of Ladner Rotarians that made today happen. And thanks to the spouses and friends that helped out today. I was told tonight by Len Kelly that if it was not for Ladner Rotary, they would have discontinued this annual Christmas party years ago as all the parents of these disabled adults are now too old to put on a roast turkey Christmas dinner like we do.
This event was started by Tom Wright, a special Rotarian who invited our Rotary club back in 2005 to help make this a special day for the families and members of the Weekend Family and Peer Support Group. This event is also sponsored by the Delta South Canadian Mental Health Association branch as well as Toobs, Save On Foods, Thrifty's and Safeway.
Yours in Rotary,
Mike Storey
We had 85 guests, from South and North Delta, persons with disabilities and family members, plus we had about 25 volunteers (Rotarians, family and friends) for a total of 110 people. We served turkey, dressing, ham, mash potatoes, mashed turnips, carrots, gravy, salads, cranberry sauce, coffee, punch and home baked desserts.
As always, this group of people and their families were very thankful for what we do. For some of them, it is their main Christmas dinner and they really do appreciate it. Save On Foods donated very large turkeys this year and we were able to package up about 35 take home meals of leftover turkey, ham, stuffing and mash potatoes this year.
Thank you once again for a job more than well done by the members of the Rotary Club of Ladner, it was a real team effort from a lot of Ladner Rotarians that made today happen. And thanks to the spouses and friends that helped out today. I was told tonight by Len Kelly that if it was not for Ladner Rotary, they would have discontinued this annual Christmas party years ago as all the parents of these disabled adults are now too old to put on a roast turkey Christmas dinner like we do.
This event was started by Tom Wright, a special Rotarian who invited our Rotary club back in 2005 to help make this a special day for the families and members of the Weekend Family and Peer Support Group. This event is also sponsored by the Delta South Canadian Mental Health Association branch as well as Toobs, Save On Foods, Thrifty's and Safeway.
Yours in Rotary,
Mike Storey