Saturday night’s Oil Barons game was a big win for the team, and a local charity.
The Fellowship Baptist Church Soup Kitchen ended up with more than 27 thousand dollars.
Councillor Sheldon Germain and others canvassed the community and ended up with more than forty-five-hundred dollars pledged by people for every Barons goal.
“We were a little worried that we wouldn’t do well, but the Oil Barons really stepped up,” said Germain. “What’s always so great about our community is, we’re a very fortunate community, but we’re also a very giving community, and Frisbees for Food is just another example of how everyone steps up to support the Soup Kitchen.”
Frisbees for Food sold out, adding more money for the Soup Kitchen, as well as 600 dollars for a shutout period and 36-hundred in fixed donations.
Germain says it wasn’t difficult to get people on board.
“And people have fun with it always,” he said. “We joke that we’re out fifty bucks, or a hundred bucks, but it’s just money to us, it’s food and life for them, so we’re just happy to do it, and we’re just a community [where] it’s part of our culture that we give and support.”
January 14, 2013
