JIMMY’S WINES & SPIRITS CONTINUES SUPPORT FOR THE CANCER SOCIETY

kidney disease, BKA will use the month of March to heighten the public on the necessary steps to keep their kidneys health.

“We encourage everyone to wear green Friday during the month of March to show your support and love to those who wake up and go on a dialysis machine three to four hours for three days a week,” said Ms Roberts.

“Despite how difficult it is, some of them still show up for their employers, they still show up for their spouse, they still show up for their children, they still show up for family and friends, they still show up at church.

She continued: So, during the month of march let us show up for them, Bahamas let us support, be kind, show love and let’s donate.”

BKA will be rolling out various initiatives for kidney awareness month, said Ms Roberts.

March 3 through 4 they will deliver 300 care packages to “kidney heroes”. On Sunday, March 5, they will gather at Grace Community at 11am for worship and March 9 will be observed as world kidney day. She also mentioned that BKA will host a high school and essay and video completion. Prizes include laptops, tablets and cell phones. Lastly, BKA will also host a fun, run, walk on March 15 at Goodman’s Bay.

JIMMY’S Wines & Spirits continues its support of the Cancer Society of The Bahamas with three donations to various fundraisers.

“The Cancer Society of The Bahamas has been one of our go-to philanthropic partners,” said executive sales and marketing manager Wellington Seymour. “In fact, very early on, we aligned our Pink Sands brand with the work they have been doing and we kicked things off with a major donation in honour of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.”

The company’s ‘Drink Pink for a Cure’ campaign has been an annual October promotion with funds earmarked for the cause. “We allocated funds from the sale of all Sands Pink Radlers as well as pink-hued wines and spirits from brands like Svedka Rose Vodka, Beefeater Pink, Absolut

Raspberri Vodka, and Notorious Pink Rose’” he said. “At the end of the month, those funds were part of a special donation which was presented to the Cancer Society team at our Jimmy’s Wines & Spirits East Bay Street location.”

To close out 2022, Jimmy’s joined forces with the Cancer Society as a partner for its holiday event ‘A Night At The Races’ at the Old Fort Bay Club. The event is a major fundraiser in aid of the Cancer Society’s Cancer Caring centre. Since 2004, the facility has housed Family Island residents undergoing treatment in the capital.

“Coming off the heels of a major hurricane, and then a global pandemic we couldn’t have possibly considered bringing back an event like this without the help of partners like Jimmy’s Wines & Spirits,” said Sue Roberts of the

Cancer Society planning committee. “Thankfully partners like Jimmy’s made it possible for us to meet the demands of the centre and work toward its expansion.”

Sands Beer and the Tito’s Vodka brand became major sponsors of this year’s Cancer Society Golf Tournament on Majority Rule Day at Baha Mar’s Blue Ocean Golf Course. Andrew Bell and Marcus Farrington emerged as the champions.

“This year’s tournament was a huge success” explained Tournament committee member Phil Andrews. “We raised close to $100,000 for the Cancer Society of The Bahamas, and we couldn’t have done so without the support of amazing corporate sponsors like Sands Beer and Tito’s Vodka of Jimmy’s Wines & Spirits.