COVER / Year in review The event included a community BBQ, a silent auction, food drive and a live draw featuring a Justin Bieber Concert package. Distefano’s seven-year-old son Christian, a child actor and singer, pitched in by donating the proceeds of a CD featuring his cover version of Bieber’s “Pray.” Education and proper nutrition go hand-in-hand and throughout the country many DLC brokers have been pitching in through various projects since September to help raise funds for Breakfast for Learning, an organization focused on providing young school children free meals. As of late November, the network reports having raised more than $14,000 through the efforts of so many of its 2,200-plus mortgage professionals. Don Cherry has also helped the cause, lending his star power to a DLC brokerage and a hockey game fundraiser last month. Cherry, who recently renewed a multi-year contract with Dominion Lending Centres, dropping the puck in the featured face-off between the Barrie Colts midget AAA squad and the South Central Coyotes of Richmond Hill, Ont. In the process, Dominion Lending Center YBM in Barrie, Ont., filled thousands of seats at the Barrie Molson Centre and collected thousands of dollars in
donations for Breakfast for Learning. Multi-Prets Mortgages, a sister company of Mortgage Alliance, raised over $40,000 for the Club des Petits Dèjeuners du Quebec, an organization that serves school children hot breakfasts before the start of class. No less than 18,000 children throughout Quebec are enrolled in the program. Since, partnering with Club des Petits some 10 years ago, Multi-Prets has donated no less than $400,000 to the Club. Apart from a good meal, children also need to get a good rest. To that end, Peter Puzzo, owner/broker of DLC Top Producers, and his colleagues are working with Sleeping Children Around the World, a charitable organization raising funds to manufacture and distribute bed kits to children in the developing world. The kits, which costs $35 each, consists of a mattress, pillow, mosquito net, and if funds are available, school supplies and clothes. “With each funded mortgage, I purchase a bed kit in honour of my clients,” he says. “SCAW sends my client a letter advising them of when the kits will be delivered and sends them a picture of the child that receives the kit.” The people at MAC/MPH go to great lengths running, riding, walking and sailing to raise money for the battle against cancer. Through its MAC Rally of Hope events, the company managed to raise nearly $200,000 for the Weekend to
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