In the past, the Elves Club and Coast TV hosted a telethon to raise funds, to provide hampers of food and gifts to families who needed extra help at Christmas time. This year there will not be a telethon but Elves will instead partner with Coast Cable and first responders on the Sunshine Coast to do a massive one-day fundraiser all over the Coast. “The Gibsons Fire Department has consistently been the biggest donation to the telethon with their Sunnycrest Mall boot drive, so we asked the volunteer emergency services right up the Coast to do something similar,” said Coast TV manager Steve Sleep.
“The emergency groups have been great,” added Elves president Lynn Nestman.
“We have all the malls from Gibsons to Pender Harbour covered from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Gibsons Fire Department will take up their regular post at the Sunnycrest Mall. Lower Gibsons and the IGA mall in Gibsons will be covered by Gibsons Marine SAR. Wilson Creek mall will see the Sunshine Coast SAR in their bright orange jackets. The Halfmoon Bay Marine SAR group will cover the Tsain-Ko mall, and the Sechelt Fire Department will be at Trail Bay mall. We are still working on Pender Harbour, but there will definitely be someone there too.”
The Elves and Coast TV are hoping Crash the Coast will raise at least as much money as the telethon would. The event finishes up Saturday at 6 p.m. with a 30-minute live broadcast on Coast TV where the money raised will be totalled and presented to the Elves.
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