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Christmas 2009

Many thanks to our supporters, sponsors, donors and volunteers! You have created special moments that are remembered with great fondness.

Christmas Corporate Sponsors and Donors

• Molsons Canada, sponsored Christmas dinners and foods

Corporate Christmas Friends

• Angels of the Night (Invis Financial) for their annual generosity in gift giving to our tenants and members!
• Telus donated goods for Comfort Bags, that are handed out as Christmas gifts to all Lookout guests, clients, tenants
• Mountain Equipment for many donations, including boxes of blankets, of shoes…
• Starbucks donated coffee… lots of coffee! for Christmas festivities.
• Jennifer Wong (Roxie Cakes) donated cupcakes to the New Westminster Shelter
• The Rose and Crown Pub in Delta-Tsawassen collected donations of blankets and clothing and donated everything to the LivingRoom Drop In (story in the Delta Optimist, December 23 issue)
• Peter Grant and Associates for volunteering, baking, singing…
• Olivet Baptist Church, New Westminster for their Extreme Donation of clothing and gifts for tenants
• Subway Restaurant  for 50 free Christmas subs to tenants
• GSA Publishing
• Pacific Coast Total Solutions for their clothing drive

Individual and Group mentions

• Rick, Allison and Eliane for organizing a home-hosted Clothing Drive
• Templeton Secondary School, for donations!
• Gaynor Lloyd and co workers for warm clothing!

Christmas Dinner preparation

Turkeys being cooked and prepped		A box of Brussels Sprouts and a box of potatoes await their turn…Carrots not far behind
Volunteers help out!		Even Dad
Lots of spuds		Peter Grant and Associates staff spend a day baking Christmas shortbread, singing Carols, and just generally playing games and hanging out with members at the Drop In.

Individuals, Families and Friends

SECOND ANNUAL! In a very cool and creative move, Eliane opened her home to friends, the price of “admission” being donations from a cleaned out closet!		Food was donated by several local cafés, bakeries and local restaurants
Rick cooked everyone a customized egg muffin

West Point Grey Academy Grade 5's

Way to go, Grade Fives! These kids prepared 120 apple crisps which were then donated to the Yukon Shelter. Chef Pierre did the cooking…		Note the row of prepared dishes along the window ledge
It was an assembly line of busy people.

Dundarave Festival of Light

The festival
The Lookout Team
Santa and one of his Elves		A very appreciative hug on Christmas morning
Two elves deliver at the Green