Q: This city high school raised $1,400 for Miracle on Mountain; A: What is Dakota Collegiate?

By: Kiera Kowalski Posted: 3:56 PM CST Friday, Dec. 15, 2017

They put the "fun" in fundraising.

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They put the “fun” in fundraising.

A baker’s dozen of Skills for Learning students representing Dakota Collegiate delivered $1,400 in “game-show” winnings to the Winnipeg Free Press Miracle on Mountain campaign Friday.

The money goes to the Christmas Cheer Board to help pay for holiday-season hampers provided to city families in need.

Dakota, which has raised money for Miracle on Mountain in the past, generated excitement among students for this year’s effort with “Hamperdy” — along with answering Jeopardy-like questions correctly, students were awarded points for every dollar and non-perishable food item they collected.

Skills for Living teacher Tim Conrad said he’s thrilled with the support and enthusiasm he has seen from his students, who are living with cognitive and physical disabilities. They’re responsible for collecting donations from other classrooms and for counting the cash.

“It gives them an opportunity to show that they can help like everybody else,” he said, adding morale soars at Dakota at this time of year. “We’re banging on doors collecting money. We’re running all over the place filling hampers.”

The school, which has a student population near 1,400, set a fundraising goal of at least one dollar for each one, so mission accomplished.

Victoria MacDonald, 15, said she was happy to have played a role in helping kids in need. Classmate Chris Espinosa, 18, who was involved for the first time said he enjoyed participating in the effort to help others in the community.

Last year Miracle on Mountain raised $107,000 for the Christmas Cheer Board.

Meanwhile, the board is looking for some generous elves with vehicles and some time to drive them.

Some 9,000 hampers have to be delivered directly to people unable to pick them up.

MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
Students in the Skills for Living program at Dakota Collegiate arrive at the Winnipeg Free Press with a cheque for more than $1,400 to give to the Miracle on Mountain charity. — MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Students in the Skills for Living program at Dakota Collegiate arrive at the Winnipeg Free Press with a cheque for more than $1,400 to give to the Miracle on Mountain charity.

Volunteers should go to this year’s cheer board HQ at 550 Milt Stegall Dr. (between Ellice and Sargent avenues), weekdays from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and weekends from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Deliveries will continue until next Saturday.

And if you’re still looking for a Christmas tree, Jensen’s Nursery is doing its annual fundraiser to help Miracle on Mountain. The nursery, located at 2550 McGillivray Blvd., is donating $2 per tree to help us help the city’s hungry. Call them at 204-488-5042 for more information.

kiera.kowalski@freepress.mb.ca

The Miracle workers

In memory of Cam Brown, $200

Roberta & John Lewis, $50

In Loving Memory of Our Parents, $100

Doreen Scherer, $50

Yvonne Schneider, $100

James Harris, $50

Mervin & Betty Moknowed, $200

Robert & Denise Holmes, $50

Joyce & Dennis Smerchanski, $100

James & Doris Thunder, $100

Lloyd & Moira Frankenberger, $150

In Memory of Wayne McDonald, $100

Donald & Pauline Fidelak, $100

Helen & Leonard Willison, $60

Elizabeth Yallowega, $100

Manitoba Lacrosse Alumni Assoc, $100

In memory of John & Mary Golovitch, $100

In memory of Rennie & Angie Stopchycki, $100

Ron Golovitch, $100

In memory of John (Jack Cann), $25

In memory of John Anderson, $60

In memory of Clint Senebald, $50

In Memory of Alexander, $50

Doug & Peggy Henning, $50

Salisbury House Employees Fund, $1,500

Jerry Ilchyna, $100

W. Douglas Reid, $100

Nancy Clyde, $100

Marilyn Bruce, $100

Thomas & Diane Bobbit, $50

Gerald & Irene Mikolash, $25

Rene & Michelle Bouchard, $150

In memory of R. Perrault, $25

Margaret Dufort, $25

Myron Nowosad, $100

Joanne M. Douglas, $500

Mary Hull, $100

Michael & Terry Bellhouse, $30

In memory of Lorette Larocque, $50

M. Mildred Hallama, $75

Evelyne & Richard Hunter, $25

In memory of Doug & Edie McMurray, $50

In memory of George & Lorna Anderson, $50

In memory of Cory Anderson, $50

Edward Hallama, $50

Shirley Ashton, $100

Cynthia Boyce, $100

In memory of Stephen Lys, $50

In memory of Andrew Kesselman, $150

Donna M. Thain, $100

Burnett Konsmo, $50

In memory of Leslie & Wayne, $50

Lucille Brown, $20

Khartum Kowboys Member & Ladies, $180

In memory of Walter Chudy, $25

Rick Phillips, $50

In memory of John Chervinski, $25

MacDonald Family, $250

In memory of Garvie F. Rae, $50

George & Grace Lintic, $125

Joan Borton, $100

In memory of Paul Melnyk, $200

Elaine Garychuk, $50

In memory of Jean & Jack McKay, $100

In memory of Nell Drake, $50

Rossmere Lanes League Members, $1,066.30

In memory of Carol Duncan, $100

The Riel Girls $120,

In memory of Ron Cubine, Connie & John Clubine, Peggy & Arnold Geith, $500

In memory of Susan & Neil Dyck, Dan Middleton, Marge Smith, Garth Burns & Rick Dyck, $600

Wilda E Smith, $25

Lorraine Werntz, $100

Bob & Helen Fraser, $50

In Memory of Byron & Jessie Angus, $100

Lions Ladies, $70

Lucille Curtis, $100

St Paul’s Anglican Church, $85

Norma Scholl, $150

Thomas Heisinger, $250

Ruth P. Zahodnik, $40

Patricia & Robert David Cavanaugh, $100

Annette Y Fontaine, $35

Grace I Yurchak, $50

Muriel L. Sutherland, $50

Laura Stott, $100

Evelyn Gordon, $50

Donna McNamara, $100

Kelly & Kelvin Einarson, $200

Marlene Shaak, $50

Andrea Bruneau, $100

Dorothy Oppeneer & Elizabeth L. Larosa, $500

In memory of Olimpia Guffei, $150

Kathleen M McKinnon, $20

Reid & Bette Birss, $50

Knights of Columbus St Anne Council #10551, $500

Anonymous – 3 donations, $550

Previous total: $13,788.30

Today’s total: $13,186.30

Grand total: $26,974.60

How you can help

Send cheques to: Miracle on Mountain, c/o 1355 Mountain Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R2X 3B6.

Or you can go to the Christmas Cheer Board’s website to donate online: christmascheerboard.ca/ways-you-can-help/donate. Make sure to click on the “fund” pull-down menu to ensure your donation is credited to Miracle on Mountain.

We’re also asking classrooms and schools — as well as anyone else who wants to help — to bring in new, unwrapped toys to put under our Christmas tree at 1355 Mountain Ave. And, if schools contact us at miracleonmountain@winnipegfreepress.com ahead of time, we’ll make sure our journalists record the generosity of Manitoba’s young people.

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