The Bowen Island Legion is doing a by-donation pick-up spaghetti and meatball dinner Friday, April 24 between 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. as a fundraiser for Portapique, NS where several people died in last weekend’s shootings.
“[It’s] another small community,” said Lynn Hartle, treasurer for branch 150. “Costs will be outrageous for these families.”
“Yvonne [McSkimming, the branch president] just said let’s do this, it’s what we do,” said Hartle. “So it’s what we’re doing.”
The dinner will be the same setup as the Easter dinner: stay in your car and make your way slowly around the lot, entering through the south entrance. Volunteers be there in masks and gloves and ask how many dinners you’d like and they’ll pass them to you through the drivers’ side window. Cash or cheque donation bins will be in two locations in the lot. Cheques be made out to RCLegion Branch 150 with Portapique in the memo line or e-transferred to [email protected]. The evening is first come, first serve.
The Legion’s Easter dinner a couple of weekends ago raised $1,600 for the food bank.
