Shelburne Timmy’s gives back with a smile

November 20, 2015 · 0 Comments

The local Tim Horton’s restaurant, located at the corner of Hwy. 89 and Hwy. 124 and the Children’s Foundation of Guelph and Wellington, Food & Friends Program of Dufferin, Wellington and Guelph, are giving back to the community through the Smile Cookie Campaign.
On Tuesday November 16th, Edith, the General Manager of Shelburne’s Tim Horton’s, presented Heather Verpaalen, Student Nutrition Program Manager for Dufferin and East Wellington’s Children’s Foundation a cheque in the amount of $1400 towards Breakfast Programs at local schools: Centennial Hylands Elementary School, Centre Dufferin District High School, Glenbrook Elementary School, Hyland Heights Elementary School and Primrose Elementary School.
Tim Horton’s stores in Shelburne, Mount Forest, Harriston, Arthur, Fergus and the Elora area are happy to announce that this year’s Smile Cookie Campaign raised a total of $66,220 for the Food & Friends Program.
The appreciative store owners would like to thank their staff and all the customers for raising these funds which will allow them to provide 45,669 breakfasts to hungry students in their communities. Local Tim Horton’s General Manger Edith tells the Free Press, “The Shelburne store also donates approximately $2000 worth of beagles, breads and muffins to Center Dufferin District High Schools Breakfast Club on a yearly basis”.
The Breakfast Club encourages all children to eat well as it positively affects their ability to learn Their mission is to initiate, facilitate and support quality sustainable student nutrition. The Foundation is able to do this by enhancing the volunteer network through recruitment and training, securing funding and grants by increasing corporate and individual partnerships, ensures equitable distribution of funds to all programs and assist programs in meeting standards of operation. With their main objective of bringing together individual nourishment programs and supporting them in their development.
Heather Verpaalen reiterated to the Free Press “currently 104 programs are run in Dufferin, Wellington and Guelph, serving 15,000 children and youth, specifically they have 5 programs in Shelburne and Mulmur serving 544 children and youth.”
Verpaalen went on to say, “we expect those numbers to grow based on the current trend of new program start ups and although core funding is provided by the Ministry of Child and Youth Services the programs are expected to make up the other 85 per cent of the funding needed to feed these hungry students.”
The Children’s Foundation believes that children and youth should hunger for knowledge, not for food and thank everyone for their past and continued contributions in helping them reach their goals.

By Michelle Janzen