The Gibsons Tim Hortons has chosen Gibsons Landing Heritage Society as the recipient of this year’s Smile Cookie Campaign charity fundraiser. They are raising funds with youth dancers and actors for the purchase of a Cyclorama (specialty stage background) and LED lighting equipment for Heritage Playhouse.
Gibsons Landing Heritage Society, dancers and actors, family and friends will be pre-selling boxes of Smile Cookies from Aug. 24 to mid-September and will be out in full force delivering them to the community participants from Sept. 14 to 23.
Each chocolate chunk smile cookie sells for $1. One hundred per cent of the proceeds go to the town’s community theatre.
With the combined efforts of Tim Hortons staff, the Society, several Sunshine Coast dance studios, Driftwood Players/Driftwood Theatre School, parents and community supporters, organizers are hoping to exceed their goal of selling 12,000 cookies to pay for the cost of staging.
“Fundraising for the arts is a challenge and we are extremely grateful to Klaus Fuerniss, owner of Gibsons Tim Hortons, for his continued support of performing arts on the Sunshine Coast,” the Heritage Society said in a news release.
The Smile Cookie Campaign is a national fundraiser, started in 1996 to help the Hamilton Children’s Hospital in Ontario. Since 2015, it has become a major charity fundraiser for young performers on the Sunshine Coast.
Heritage Playhouse serves dancers, singers, actors, musicians, film clients and performing community groups by “Nurturing Community Artistry” through community performances, private rentals, year-end recitals, festivals, plays, films, meetings, and concerts.
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