Event Review's

14th Annual Kids Kottage Premier's Breakfast Raises $37,000!
Sobeys Symphony Under the Sky
10th Annual Earth Angels Unite Gala Ball
Brownlee Law LLP Desk Calendar
16th Annual Kids Kottage Radiothon

14th Annual Kids Kottage Premier's Breakfast Raises $37,000!

On Tuesday, October 27, 2009, nearly 400 people converged on the Sawmil Banquet and Catering Centre for a delicious early morning breakfast sponsored by Bell Canada. Danny Hooper got everyone laughing right from the start! Young Alyssa Stoddard impressed everyone with a very precious grace prior to the food service. Then two beautiful young ladies Mielke Sobolewski and Tianna Borle blessed everyone with their gift of song. The specialties of the morning were greetings from Kids Kottage Honourary Chair, Marie Stelmach and Premier Stelmach! Following an insightful video depicting the work of the Kids Kottage crisis nursery, auctioneer extraordinaire, Danny Hooper went to work and raised $9,000 in the live auction. The closed bid auction brought an additional $8,500 and by the end of the event, we had received cash donations enough to take our proceeds over the top of $37,000! Thanks to the many auction donors, buyers and sponsors who made this year's Premier's Breakfast the best ever! Congratulations to committee chair, Karen Clipperton and her committee for a job well done!

Another successful Sobeys Symphony Under the Sky

On Saturday, September 5th, The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra musicians, Allene Hackleman, Bill Dimmer, Megan Evans, and Lidia Khaner donned BBQ aprons and fried up patties donated by Sobey's thanks to Stephanie Samson! Attendees at the concert in Hawrelak Park enjoyed the great priced hamburgers and drinks, and raised almost $1300 for Kids Kottage! Thank you Erika Ratzlaff, Marketing Manager, and everyone who helped make this another wonderful success!

10th Annual Earth Angels Unite Gala Ball

Our 10th Annual Earth Angel Gala was a spectacular event where guests were ushered down the red carpet, swarmed by paparazzi, just as it should be in true Hollywood style, complete with Marilyn Munro wondered through the crowd, greeting everyone out on the beautiful balcony of the Empire Ballroom. During this wonderful "Night At the Oscars" our very own Special Guests, Premier Ed Stelmach and Honourary Chair of Kids Kottage, Mrs. Marie Stelmach were on hand to pay special tribute to one of Kids Kottage biggest stars, Dr. Robert Westbury. Some ten years ago Dr. Westbury was the brainchild of the Earth Angel Campaign and Gala Ball and so it was only fitting that on our 10th Anniversary of this amazing fundraising event that he be presented with his very own "Oscar!"

During the exciting evening over 220 guests helped raise more than $140,000 for the Kids Kottage thanks to donors like: CJ Woods, Ashif and Zainul Mawji, The Fairmont Hotel Macdonald and Mayor Stephen Mandel, TELUS and Drs. Bob and Marilyn Westbury, Zulu Nyala Group of Johannesburg, South Africa and The Ben Sawatzky Foundation and Don Wheaton, as well as Kline Fine Jewellers, and Blue Sky Limos.

Thank you so much to these people who were the winning bidders of these fabulous auction items: Colin Lywood & Trish Hebert; Doug Goss of Bryan & Company; Tom Flanagan of Amalgamated Mining; Marilyn Mucha of Deloitte; Todd Bish of Solutions Workplace Furnishings; Ben Sawatzky! Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Ben Sawatzky who will be going on a 14 day Mediterranean Cruise this fall!

Heavenly Stars (event sponsors)

Premier Ed Stelmach
Mrs. Marie Stelmach
Mayor Steven Mandel
Ashif and Zainul Mauji
Ben Sawatzky Foundation
CJ Woods
Don Wheaton
Fairmont Hotel Macdonald Edmonton
Liquor Depot
TELUS & Dr. Bob Westbury
The Cellar Restaurant
Zulu Nyala Group
Kline Fine Jewellery
Blue Sky Limos

Thank You!

Earth Angel Dinner Committee Chair
John Steeves, CIBC

Kids Kottage Honourary Chair
Mrs. Marie Stelmach

Master of Ceremonies & Auctioneer
Danny Hooper

Earth Angel Gala Dinner Committee
John Steeves CIBC
Louise Gibson Carma
Ashif Mawji Upside Software Inc.
Rosanna Saccomani Biamonte Cairo & Shortreed
Mike Nabavi ATB
Jeff Erlam Kids Kottage Board
Pam Miller Kids Kottage Foundation

10 Annual Earth Angel Gala Auction Items and sponsors:

Villa Madeira in Cabo donated by C.J. Woods, FCA, CIBC Wood Gundy - Edmonton, AB, Canada

Orange County 7-Night Get-A-Way for 4 couples donated by Ashif Mawji, Upside Software Inc. As well as The Cellar Restaurant in Fullerton, California

Rod Stewart Concert donated by Dr. Bob Westbury, Chair, TELUS Edmonton Community Foundation

Private Dinner for 6 with Mayor Steven Mandel in the Royal Suite donated by the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald Edmonton

African Photographic Safari Trip partially sponsored by the Zulu Nyala Group

Humanitarian Trip courtesy of Ben Sawatzky Foundation

 

Brownlee Law LLP Desk Calendar

The wonderful folks at Brownlee LLP Barristers and Solicitors compiled some of the artwork done at the Kottage and developed a 2009 Desk Calendar for their clients. We are so thankful for their wonderful foresight and support in getting the word out about our work with vulnerable children and their families.

16th Annual Kids Kottage Radiothon

We did it! We raised $103,000.00 and counting! And we confirmed 26 Guardian Angels with more renewals coming in January and a whole year of possible growth!

Even though we started the day with a bit of a telephone glitch over our 944-HOPE number, it still turned out to be truly a wonderful event once again this year!! This was our 16th Annual Kids Kottage Radiothon with AM 930 The Light and 105.9 Shine FM!

Because of our wonderful supporters and listeners of Touch Canada Broadcasting stations, we will be able to continue to come along side families who are struggling in crisis - in desperate situations - alone, with nowhere to turn for help - to the point that children are at risk of abuse, neglect!

This success could only happen because of caring people who enabled us to make this fundraising event such a success, everyone at Touch Canada Broadcasting and the Shine FM DJ's, Johnny Rocket, Malcolm Hunt, Ryan Visser, Dean Jones, John Berry along with AM 930 The Light DJ's, Jon Ramer and Wade Sorochan, who knew that their radio listeners would respond to our plea for support and raise the necessary dollars for the Kids Kottage crisis nursery! AND THEY DID! We can never say "Thank You" enough!

Not only was it special because of the 16th anniversary of this event, but the event day held many wonderful moments we will all remember for a long - long time ... like the "Time To Laugh with Leland Klassen, who helped us to look at the lighter side of parenting, all the special sponsors who donated Match Money so we could play, "That's A Match" and of course all the wonderful volunteers who gave us their gift of time as they volunteered on the Pledge Lines, and of course the awesome faithful supporters who called and donated their hard earned dollars - - - all for the precious little ones and their parents!

We want to say special "Thank You" so much to our Match Money Sponsors:

Al Terra Engineering
All Weather Windows
Allen & Associates Chartered Accountants
Aman Building Corporation
Bettcher's Auto Services Ltd.
Cameron Plumbing & Heating
C. & K. Allard
Crystal Glass
Edmonton Public Teachers
Grimes Well Servicing
Haven Management Inc.
Hemisphere Engineering

Heritage Insurance & Consulting Ltd.
M & Z Industrial Supply Ltd.
Mones-Stratton & Yanke Affinity Groups Inc.
One to One Mailing
SCM Insurance Services
S. Potgieter
Bee Bell Health Bakery
Supertint Ltd.
Supreme Steel
T. G. Muzyka Professional Corporation
T. Baart