Our Build Day Video

Some pictures from Build Day!

Build Day Song

Click the link to hear a song created by local high school students with the help of their wonderful music teacher, Zak Chaulk. Amazing job!

http://www.ltbk.ca/media/Twillingate/ltbk.mp3

Build Day is TOMORROW!

Well this is it, go time! Build Day begins at 8am tomorrow, rain or shine (but let's all say a prayer tonight for some shine okay?). If you are volunteering with us tomorrow, thank you so much, it is going to be a great day! If you couldn't make it to volunteer, please join us by watching online at www.ltbk.ca. If you are watching, be sure to sned us a note to cheer us on!

Build Day t-shirts will be available tomorrow, $10 a shirt and are available in adult and child sizes. All proceeds go directly to the playground fund.

If you are a volunteer, don't forget to bring your waiver form, filled out but not signed, with you in the morning. We will have some extra if anyone who hasn't registered arrives, or if anyone forgets.

That's it for now, my next update will have pictures of the new "Twillingate Playground of Memories". Tomorrow is going to be a day we will never forget.

Only 2 Days to Build Day! Equipment has arrived!

It was a very exciting evening as volunteers gathered to unload the playground and fitness park equipment.   A huge thank you to the Twillingate Volunteer Fire Department who came out to help with this task.  Also, a special thanks to Byron Rogers and Derrick Warren who have spent many hours over the last couple weeks preparing the groundwork for Build Day!

3 Sleeps 'til Build Day! We need your help!

Can you believe it? Our Build Day is only days away! It is going to be such an awesome day. Just a few notes to update you all.

- We are in need of some supplies to help make Build Day a success. There is a complete list below, but some items, such as wheelbarrows, shovels, rakes, etc. are needed in large amounts, so please if you can bring one or more do so on Saturday. Ask around to neighbors, families and friends as well, they may not be able to be there on Saturday but can help out in this way. It would be very much appreciated!

- A more complete schedule of events will be posted within the next couple days, but for now here is a quick run down of what is going to happen on Saturday.

• 8:00am Registration and assignment of tasks, playground build begins.
• 10:00am Children's activities begin at the ballfield (or stadium is weather is not favorable). Please remember that all children younger than 4 must be accompanied by a caregiver 16 years old or older to participate. The YMCA and Twillingate Recreation Committee have been working together to plan a fun day for the kids, and of course we want as many kids there as possible to open the playground!
• 11:30am Lunch break begins. Volunteers will be assigned a colored group to make this run smoothly, details to come on Build Day.
• 1:00pm Playground build resumes.
• 3:00pm Opening Ceremonies (group photo will be taken before the opening ceremonies).

5 days until Build Day! Festival Booth was a success!

Our Fish Fun and Folk Festival booth was yet another success raising over $1000.00 for our playground/fitness park. For every dollar someone donated they received one ticket on a new Ted Stuckless print "The Punt",  two photos by Megan Greenham and a paper towel holder by John Manuel. A very big thank-you goes out to Ted, Megan and John for the generous donation of these amazing prizes!

 

Twillingate Playground Committee Secretary, Allison Scott 

and her daughter Annie manning the booth at the Fish, fun & Folk Festival.

13 days until BUILD DAY! A big thank you to Glenn Mitchell for his fudnraising efforts!

Glenn Mitchell works in Norman Wells, NWT but lives here in Twillingate
with his wife and son, Andrew.  Andrew told his dad about the walk-a-thon
to help raise money for the new playground and Glenn thought it was a
great idea.  Glenn, who was away working at the time decided that he would
try his best to raise some money for the playground as well.  Glenn talked
to people he worked with from all the different companies in Norman Wells
and in the end he raised a total of $1110.00 for the walk-a-thon.

18 days until Build Day - Check out our interview with LTBK!

Scotiabank Canada Day Garden Party a HUGE Success!!!

It was a Happy Canada Day for children and adults of all ages who came out to the Scotiabank garden party.  Despite the weather, which forced the “Garden Party” to be held in the stadium, it still received great support from the people of our great community and visitors alike.  It was a wonderful day of fun, food and socialization.  A HUGE thank you to Manager, Lucy Jenkins and her employees of the Scotiabank, Twillingate Branch who have spent many weeks planning activities to make this event successful in a BIG way!  Many of the day’s activities included; a fish pond, cake walk, PLINKO, dunk tank, barbecue hot dogs and hamburgers, popcorn and cotton candy booth, face painting, just to name a few.  Also, thanks are being sent out to a number of people who helped the Scotiabank employees, these include, Ross Gambin the Manager of Twillingate Save Easy and his employees who provide the barbecue supplies and served during the day, Twillingate Lions and Leo clubs for running the popcorn and cotton candy booth and all individuals who donated cakes for the cake walk, and helped out with the activities, especially those who volunteered to be dunked into the cold water of the dunk tank.  The grand total for the day’s event was $4445.00 but it still gets better, this money was matched through team Scotia community program becoming a fundraising event with a total of $8890.00.  Awesome job everyone!

Photo Shoot Fundraiser

Over the month of June, I had the opportunity to "play photographer" and raise money for the playground at the same time. Thank you to everyone who participated, I really enjoyed the experience and I hope you are all happy with your photos. As a result of your support, I was able to raise $500 for the playground! Below is a short video I made, highlighting just some of the photos taken. Hope you enjoy.

WalkAThon Update

It has been a little more than one month since the Giant Community walk took place

but now that all the money has been collected we are very excited to announce the

grand total to be $8752.50. A HUGE thank you to all who participated! We live in a

community of fantastic people!!!!

Lemonade for Sale!

 

Caitlin Gillard, Evan Greenham, and Lekeisha Greenham decided to do some fundraising on their own with all proceeds going to the Twillingate Playground and Fitness Park. On June 27, they decided to have a lemonade sale at the Top of Twillingate Trail, and later that day Evan contacted Grant White to inform him that he would be bringing him some money. Shortly after the conversation all three showed up at the door with their bag of money, a total of $21.74. What an awesome Lemonade Sale. When matched by Let Them Be Kids, this is doubled to $43.48. Thanks guys!!

 

 

Epicure Fundraiser

During June the Playground Committee along with the Recreation Committee sold Epicure to raise money for the playground. Local Epicure consultant, Krista McCreary was generous enought to donate ALL her commission from our sales. A big thank you to Krista for her support! The total raised through this fundraiser was $848.75!

Stay tuned for an update on the donation from the Lion's Telethon, we should have a total amount raised by the end of the week! 

Fitness Park

Telethon Results

I think this picture says it all:

Thank you to all our supporters for the many pledges. Your generosity has blown us away. Amazing! If you didn't get a chance to donate today but would like to, please see the information on the left hand side of this page on how to make a donation. Once again, a huge thank you to all of you who helped make this telethon such an enormous success! It is days like today that remind us all what a great community Twillingate is. Thank you!

Lion's Telethon - Sunday June 12th

Playground Design

Upcoming Fundraiser: Walk-A-Thon June 1st

Twillingate Community Playground/Fitness Park

Fundraising Event

Please Support!

WHAT: A Giant Community Walk-A-Thon

WHEN: June 1^st , 2011

WHY: We need to raise approx. $75,000 before our playground build day on August 6^th, 2011!

Details: On June 1^st , different groups throughout Twillingate will participate in a walk-a-thon to raise money for our Community Playground/Fitness Park. We are asking you, as an individual or for your group to help support us by taking a pledge sheet and collecting donations. Then on June 1st, join together as a community in a walk around Hospital Pond anytime between 4pm & 7pm.

Remember, for every dollar raised, Let Them Be Kids will match it with another dollar!

NOTE: if all students in elementary/high school had only 20 dollars in pledges, we would get $6000.00. Through the LTBK award, this becomes a $12, 000.00 fundraiser. This can really be a Giant walk-a-thon...Let’s make this happen!!!

Pledge sheets will be given to all students of J.M.O.C. and T.I.E. this week, and are also available through any committee member for any member of the community who wishes to walk for our cause! We look forward to seeing everyone at the walk! Thank you for your support!
Click here to print the pledge sheets!

For More Information visit @www.twillingate.ltbk.ca  email: twillingateplaygroundcommittee@gmail.com  call:884-1111, 884-2068 or 884-1537

Dot-Mocracy

Today we held our Dot-Mocracy to allow the children of our community to "vote" on which playground equipment they would like to see in our new playground. The results will be compiled and used to create a design for the playground we will build on August 6th. We should have the first design in about 3 or 4 days. When we get the design, we will of course share it with all of you, but for now, here are a few pictures of our "Dot-Mocracy" from today.

 Grant and Tonia explaining the "dot-mocracy" process to the kids.

 Girls tracing their hands for our Build Day ribbon.

 Jack White proudly displaying his artwork!

Choosing their favorite playground equipment!

First fundraiser was a success (and other good news)!

Our first fundraiser took place this past Saturday morning. We held a breakfast with the Easter Bunny for everyone in town. We had a great turn out and raised around $1400! With our 50/50 match from Let Them Be Kids we have $2800 in purchasing power for new playground and fitness park equipment. Wow! It was a wonderful morning, and lots of smiles (although some tears as well) from kids when they got to meet the Easter Bunny. Here are a few of my favorite shots from the morning:

In other news, we currently have 264 volunteers signed up for our Build Day on August 6th! This is incredible! A big thank you to all who have signed up so far, and if you haven't had a chance to register yet, please do! Many hands make light work, and everyone will have a job to do on Build Day to be successful. Just click the link on the right hand side of this page and fill in your information, that way you will receive bi-weekly updates on our progress until the big day arrives.

I also wanted to make mention of the fact that not only has Twillingate been selected to receive a Let Them Be Kids Helping Hands Award, we have also been chosen as one of only 4 communities across Canada that will have their Build Day featured in a documentary that will be screened at the Toronto Film Festival as well as the Sundance Film Festival. The documentary, Let Them Be Kids: Building Playgrounds, Inspiring Hope will highlight our efforts throughout the coming months as we fund-raise and rally volunteers to help us build a new playground and fitness park for our town. What a great moment for Twillingate! We should be proud of our little town! We have accomplished so much so far, and the best is yet to come!