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Have you bought your duck ticket? Royal LePage East Kootenay Realty Food Bank Duck Race is July 1
C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
The 11th Annual Royal LePage East Kootenay Realty Food Bank Duck Race is just ten days away and there are still ducks to be sold. Food Bank directors have been out and about for over a month selling tickets and Cath Oscarson reports that over $16,000 has been banked. But the goal is $20,000. The duck race sold $20,000 worth of tickets last year and added another $2,083 from the barbecue. “The Food Bank is a good cause and it feeds a lot of children,” Oscarson said. “In this school district, 25 per cent of kids are fed through the Food Bank. 50 per cent of the clients are children.” PHOTO CONTRIBUTED Marilyn Jolie says that while Top row left to right - Htaw Win, Hser Dri Htoo, Thaw Thi, Bottom, left to right - Shauna Jimenez, January, Ku Luey $20,000 may seem like a lot of Thaw, Ku Gay, Hay Tha Htoo as Karen refugees celebrated Aboriginal Day on June 21 and World Refugee Day (June money, it really will only cover 20 with the Ktunaxa. the costs of groceries for the food bank for a month or two. “Eight to $16 thousand a month is spent on food hampers, plus another $5,000 on emergency hampers,” Jolie said. “Our $22,000 only funds it for a little over a month, that’s C AROLYN GR ANT berley and Cranbrook, were wel- ritory of the Ktunaxa; all. Groceries have gone up so Bulletin Editor “The Karen people of Burma are much. Trying to supply people comed, some for the first time. “Many Ktunaxa folks were inter- an ethnic, first-nation group inside with wholesome food is expenIt is a celebration of solidarity and ested to hear the history of the Karen Burma that the Burmese government sive.” understanding from one first nation people from Burma and to under- has been oppressing for 40 years. Jolie says the Food Bank is to another. Each year on Aboriginal stand how they came to be here living The Burmese government frequently grateful for all who assist with Day, the Ktunaxa people welcome on traditional Ktunaxa territory,” said burns down their villages, destroys the Duck Race. those who have found refuge in Can- Shauna Jimenez of Friends of Burma. their crops, and enslaves these peo“We extend out thanks to all ada to their traditional territory. This Here is what the MC, Carol Alex- ple - women and men. the prize donors, to people who year, many of the Karen refugees ander said as she lead the welcome of have already purchased tickets, from Burma, who now live in Kim- the Karen refugees to traditional terSee PAGE 3 and businesses for supporting
Karen people welcomed to traditional territory of Ktunaxa
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the Food Bank and the Duck Race.” “The City provides amazing support as well,” Oscarson said. “They put the ducks in the water, supply picnic tables and garbage bags. They are very, very good to us.” “And Mayor Don McCormick is our MC every year,” Jolie said. “He is a busy guy and we appreciate him making time for us.” Oscarson and Kimberley’s ticket-seller extraordinaire Stan Salikin will be at Overwaitea and the BC Liquor Store in the coming days with tickets. They will also be at the Farmers’ Market this Thursday evening. Tickets are also available at local businesses and at the Royale LePage East Kootenay Realty Kimberley office. FIRST PRIZE • $2500 Donated by Royal LePage East Kootenay Realtor Marilyn Jolie. SECOND PRIZE • 2 nights free in 3 bedroom condo compliments of Kimberley Lodging Company, 2 rounds of golf from Kimberley Golf Course, and Feast for 4 from the Old Bauernhaus. THIRD PRIZE • $250 Cash compliments of Meadowbrook Greenhouse. FOURTH PRIZE • 2 Rounds of Golf compliments of Bootleg Gap Golf Course (some restrictions apply). The ducks will be launched at 12:30 p.m. on Canada Day and should arrive at the Civic Centre area by 1 p.m.