Giving Back 2023
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We're proud to be a Community-Minded business.
We give back to the communities we serve in various ways through out the year. We collaborate with local non-profits to make an impact where we live, sponsor various events through out the year and more. This article will be updated regularly to keep our members and customers informed about what we're doing to give back in 2023.
January
McKenzie Place — January Residents Birthday Cake
PWA Band Society – Refreshment Sponsorship for Band Concert Fundraiser
PWA Grad — Gift card to help 2023 grad
Northern Redneck Riders – 2023 Finals Sponsor
Grande Prairie Family Education Society — Gift Card Donation — Kaleidoscope Grief & Loss Group for Adults
2DayFm Sock Drive In Support of Wapiti House & Saint Lawrence Center — 900 pairs of socks
Tiny Hands of Hope — Illuminate the Night Gala — Dessert Table Sponsor
Alzheimer Society of AB and Northwest Territories — Additional support
Holy Cross Church Grande Cache — Large veggie lovers deluxe and fruit deluxe tray for Vic's wake
Mackenzie Place — Monthly Birthday cake for residents
Chautauqua Days 2023 — Gift cards for Classic Car Show winners
Société des Amis de l'école Héritage — Gift cards for prize calendar fundraiser in Falher
Rising Above — 2023 Hope Lives Banquet Sponsorship
Smoky River Transportation — Fuel Sponsorship to provide transportation to residents of the Smoky River Region to and from communities for medical, cultural, recreational, shopping or personal purposes
Grande Prairie Regional Agricultural Exhibition Society — Candy Sponsorship for the Kids Candy Toss at Evergreen Park
Parkside Montessori School — Cookies and cupcakes for the Family Valentine's Dance
Ecole St. Gerard School — Gift cards for Family Fun Dance
Centre for Young Parents — January 3% Thursday recipient
Grande Cache Transition House – January 3% Thursday recipient
Valleyview Food Bank — January 3% Thursday recipient
Sexsmith Food Bank — January 3% Thursday recipient
Hythe Food Bank — January 3% Thursday recipient
Hillside School — Donated fresh sandwiches, cookies & oranges for the entire school
Hillside School — Gift Cards for school snack program
Saskatoon Lake Agricultural Society — Spring Fling Silent Auction Item
Wapiti Meadows District — Assorted Cookies for BP Thinking Day
Jean Cote Family Day Event — Prizes for the kids
Valleyview Gymnastics Club — Cupcakes for Daddy Daughter Dance
Helping Hands — Bread Bags
Swanavon School — Assorted Cookies for students & Teachers
PARDS — 2023 Fuel Sponsorship
Resource Centre for Suicide Prevention — January Coin Box recipient
February
McKenzie Place — February Residents Birthday Cake
Grande Prairie Lions Club Annual Fundraiser — Silent auction item
Savanna Agricultural Society Annual Fundraiser — Silent auction item
4H Alberta — $1000 in scholarships for 2023 recipients
Rycroft School — Gift Cards for school snack program
Summitview School Grande Cache — Gift Cards for school snack program
Derek Taylor School — Gift Cards for school snack program
Harry Gray School Vallyview — Gift Cards for school snack program
Harry Balfour School — Gift Cards for school snack program
St. Stephens School Valleyview — Gift Cards for school snack program
Tangent Social Club — Silent auction item
City of Grande Prairie — Family Day at Eastlink Centre Sponsorship
Town of Valleyview — 300 cupcakes for Family Day Event
Andrea Vavrek Dine & Dance — Silent auction item
Woking Playgroup — Gift card for playgroup program
Canadian Mental Health Association — Coldest Night of The Year Team Pledge
LAHF Troup — Silent Auction item
Laglace School — Gift Cards for school snack program
St. Kateri Catholic School — Cookies to decorate for Winter Carnival
GP Catholic Family Services — February 3% Thursday recipient
Salvation Army – February 3% Thursday recipient
Grande Cache Food Bank — February 3% Thursday recipient
Fairview Food Bank — February 3% Thursday recipient
Beaverlodge Food Bank — February 3% Thursday recipient
Wembley United Church Food Bank — February 3% Thursday recipient
Alberta Mental Health Foundation — February Coin Box recipient
Alberta Mental Health Foundation — February Window Decal program
March
McKenzie Place — March Residents Birthday Cake
Hillside Canadian Tour 2023 — Valleyview Gift Card Fundraiser
Grande Prairie & Area Safe Communities — Food sponsorship for RIISK programming
Wellington Resource Centre FCSS — Full Slab cake for Senior week celebration
Troyanda Society of Ukrainian Culture & Heritage — Sugar cookies to decorate at the Vitaemo Festival
Threads of Life — Food sponsorship for walk/run
Compassion House Foundation — Community Sponsorship for "Walk Her Way 5K"
Sexsmith Farmers Market — Reusable bag sponsorship for 2023 season
Société CKRP Radio Rivière-La-Paix in Falher — Kids prize for Radioathon
Grande Prairie Public Library — Little Free Pantry Food & Hygiene sponsorship
Tom Hill Memorial Dart Tournament in Grande Cache — Prize for Raffle Table
Routhier School in Falher — Popcorn Machine and popcorn donation for school dance trip fundraiser
Odyssey House — March 3% Thursday recipient
Wapiti House — March 3% Thursday recipient
Mountain Metis Youth Connections – March 3% Thursday recipient
Spirit River FCSS — March 3% Thursday recipient
Smoky River FCSS — March 3% Thursday recipient
PARDS — March Coin Box recipient
OAP School Valleyview — Gift Cards for school snack program
Grande Cache Community Events Foundation — Gold — Community major event sponsorship
Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories — Speed Racer Sponsorship for the 2023 Alzheimer's Walk
Grande Prairie Friendship Centre — Live Auction Sponsor for the Grande Gathering Gala
Canadian Cancer Society — Bananas, muffins, oranges and granola bars for participants at the 2023 CIBC Run for the Cure
Hythe & Area Community Program (FCSS) — Full Slab cake for Senior week celebration
United Way Alberta Northwest — Co-op Liquor Basket to auction at the Mending Mental Health at Madhatters event
Alexander Forbes School — Gift Cards for school snack program
Ridley Enterprises Inc — Water Sponsor for the Bubble Chase 5K
Regional EMS Foundation — 2023 NAT Van Fuel Sponsorship
April
McKenzie Place — April Residents Birthday Cake
Friends of Grande Spirit Foundation — April Coin Box recipient
Grande Prairie Friendship Centre — April 3% Thursday recipient
Grande Prairie Youth Emergency Shelter (Sunrise House) — April 3% Thursday recipient
Grande Cache Transition House – April 3% Thursday recipient
Valleyview Food Bank — April 3% Thursday recipient
Sexsmith Food Bank — April 3% Thursday recipient
Hythe and District Food Bank — April 3% Thursday recipient
Northreach Society 2SLGHTQ+ — Youth Summer Camp Food Sponsorship
Ignite Youth Centre — Cleanbox Sponsorship
Harry Balfour School — Dessert Sponsorship for Art Walk
Grande Prairie & District Golden Age Centre — April Pancake Breakfast Sponsorship
Sexsmith & District Museum Society — Door Prize for Springtime in Paris fundraiser
Town of Valleyview — Flower Basket Sponsorship
Whispering Pines Lodge Grande Cache — Spring Tea door prize
Elks of Canada — $400 for Hythe's Citizen of the Year supper
PARDS — Petting Zoo Sponsor at 2023 Carnival & Cook-Off
Wild North Rabbit Club — $500 sponsorship for 2024 Spring Show
AHS — Appreciation prizes for National Nurses Week
MNP — Donut Day partnership with proceeds going to Salvation Army
Grande Prairie 4-H Club — Donuts for Achievement Days
Valleyview 4-H Club — Free cookies for Achievement Days
May
McKenzie Place — May Residents Birthday Cake
Grande Prairie & District Golden Age Centre — May Pancake Breakfast Sponsorship
Alzheimer's Awareness Society — May Coin Box recipient
Centre for Young Parents Grande Prairie — May 3% Thursday recipient
Babies Best Start — May 3% Thursday recipient
Grande Cache Food Bank – May 3% Thursday recipient
Fairview Food Bank — May 3% Thursday recipient
Beaverlodge Food Bank — May3% Thursday recipient
Wembley United Church Food Bank — May 3% Thursday recipient
Grande Prairie Family Education Society — Gift card for seminar to help families after addiction
Town of Valleyview — Canada Day cupcake sponsorship
Royal Canadian Air Cadets Squadron — Gift card for Spring Field Training Exercise
Jean-Cote Community Centre — Gift card for volunteer appreciation BBQ
Wanham Plowing Match — Bronze sponsorship
School of the cross — Donuts for safe grad
Grande Prairie Live Theatre — 2 Scholarship registrations for the Rising Star Drama Camp
Grande Prairie Kin Club — Liquor Basket for Silent Auction
Fourteen 14 — 4 cases of water to support their Free water to the community
Valleyview Evacuation Centre — Half a pallet of water, sandwich trays, case of oranges, bananas and juice boxes
GPFC One Window Resource — Mini Hygiene bags for wild fire evacuees
Grande Prairie Family Centered Coalition— Donuts for Early Childhood Educators Day
Big Fish Derby — Gift card to purchase food for derby
Jean Cote Playground Enhancement Project — Gift card to purchase food for Mother's Day brunch
Central Peace Firefighter's Association — Co-op Liquor Basket for 3rd Annual Golf Tournament
Northwestern Alberta Emergency Response — Donating $2 from every car wash purchased from May 11-31st
The Chateau — Grocery Cart for seniors at residence
Roy Bickell School — 13 dozen donuts for "Donuts for Grown ups"
Grande Spirit Foundation — Liquor Basket for Silent Auction in support of golf tournament
Grande Cache Municipal Library — $500 pantry sponsorship
Sexsmith District Community Foundation — Liquor Basket for Silent Auction in support of golf tournament
Nitehawk — Liquor Basket for Silent Auction in support of landslide remediation
IV Macklin — Gift card for School Carnival BBQ
ACFA regionale de Grande Prairie — Gift card to assist with La St-Jean Baptiste BBQ
Savanna School — Silent Auction item for Year Book fundraiser
Grande Prairie Regional Association of Volunteer Organization — Gift Card for Door Prize
June
McKenzie Place — June Residents Birthday Cake
Grande Prairie & District Golden Age Centre — June Pancake Breakfast Sponsorship
Canadian Mental Health Association — June Coin Box recipient
GP Catholic Family Services — June 3% Thursday recipient
Salvation Army – June 3% Thursday recipient
Mountain Metis Youth Connections — June 3% Thursday recipient
Spirit River FCSS — June 3% Thursday recipient
Smoky River FCSS — June 3% Thursday recipient
Central Peace Food Bank — June 3% Thursday recipient
Falher Honey Festival Committee — Gift Card for Honey Festival Pancake Breakfast
Sweathouse Community Centre — Water & Snacks for Firefighters
Grande Prairie Composite High School — Silent Auction item for Football Fundraiser
Grande Prairie Downtown Association — Food donation for volunteers at the Street Performers Festival
Ecole Heritage — Marking Paint for Colour Blast Fun Run
Charles Spencer High School — Reuseable Bags for Grad Class
South Peace Horse Club — 10 Dozen Buns for the South Peace Horse Trials
The Hythe & District Agricultural Society — Product Donation for the 47th Annual Agricultural Fair
Clairmont Agricultural Society — Product Donation for Fall Fair & Exhibition
Just a Guy — $100 Gift Card for Sea to Sea for PTSD Fundraiser
July
McKenzie Place — July Residents Birthday Cake
Grande Prairie & District Golden Age Centre — July Pancake Breakfast Sponsorship
In The Woods, Grande Cache Animal Society & Bandaged Paws — July Coin Box recipient
Odyssey House — July 3% Thursday recipient
Wapiti House – July 3% Thursday recipient
Grande Cache Transition House — July 3% Thursday recipient
Valleyview Food Bank — July 3% Thursday recipient
Sexsmith Food Bank — July 3% Thursday recipient
Hythe and District Food Bank — July 3% Thursday recipient
Town of Falher — Free Public Swim Silver Sponsorship
United Way — Cooper Pencils & Co-op Granola Bars for Tools for School Program
Youth on The Rise — Co-op Snacks & Drinks for Friendship Project Camp
Ronald McDonald House Charities of AB — Co-op Pies for Shoot For The House
Grande Prairie Youth Emergency Shelter — Lock purchase for Locking out Youth Homelessness fundraiser
Birch Hills Seniors — 24 water bottles x 5 for upcoming music festival attendees
Valleyview AG Society — Co-op Gift Cards for Stampede BBQ supplies
Western Cree Tribal Council — Co-op Giftcards for Sturgeon Lake PowWow
Grade Three Reading University — Co-op Gift Cards for BBQ supplies
Archie Harvey Memorial Golf Tournament — Liquor Basket for Silent Auction
A&W — Gifts Cards for MS Society Silent Auction
Mountain Plains Community Services Society of the North — Full Slab Cake for Carnival
Valleyview Pride Society — Water for Community Block Party
Nord-Quest FM — Gift card to help with Fête de la Days
August
McKenzie Place — August Residents Birthday Cake
Grande Prairie & District Golden Age Centre — August Pancake Breakfast Sponsorship
Kidsport — August Coin Box recipient
Grande Prairie Friendship Centre — August 3% Thursday recipient
GPYESS Sunrise House – August 3% Thursday recipient
Grande Cache Food Bank — August 3% Thursday recipient
Fairview Food Bank — August3% Thursday recipient
Beaverlodge Food Bank — August3% Thursday recipient
Wembley United Church Food Bank — August 3% Thursday recipient
Grande Prairie Family Education Society — Giftcards for Family Fun Day BBQ supplies
Savanna Agricultural Society — Silent Auction Item
Legion Branch #54 — Silent Auction Item
Peace Wapiti School Division — Swag Bags for Bus Driver Seminar
Bear Lake Growing Project — Donuts for annual Harvest Lunch
Sorrentino's Compassion House — Rycroft Community BBQ recipient
Stollery Children's Hospital "Lemonade Stand" Fundraiser — Lemons for Lemonade
Grande Prairie Firefighters Charitable Foundation — Liquor Basket for Bunnock Tournament Silent Auction
Grande Prairie Legion Branch 54 — Cupcakes for First Responders Appreciation Day
September
Centre for Young Parents Grande Prairie — September 3% Thursday recipient
Babies Best Start — September 3% Thursday recipient
Grande Cache Food Bank – September 3% Thursday recipient
Fairview Food Bank — September 3% Thursday recipient
Beaverlodge Food Bank — September 3% Thursday recipient
Wembley United Church Food Bank — September 3% Thursday recipient
McKenzie Place — September Residents Birthday Cake
Grande Prairie & District Golden Age Centre — September Pancake Breakfast Sponsorship
Canadian Breast Cancer — September Coin Box recipient
Wellington Resource Center — Gift Cards for Senior Snack Program
Sexsmith Farmers Market — Co-op Grocery Bags
ATCO EPIC — Liquor Basket for Silent Auction
Hillside School (Grande Prairie) — Gift Cards for school snack program
Laglace School — Gift Cards for school snack program
Valhalla School — Gift Cards for school snack program
Hillside Jr. Sr. High School (Valleyview) — Gift Cards for school snack program
Summitview School (Grande Cache) — Gift Cards for school snack program
Grande Cache Community School — Gift Cards for school snack program
Derek Taylor School — Gift Cards for school snack program
Rycroft School — Gift Cards for school snack program
Harry Gray School (Valleyview) — Gift Cards for school snack program
Woking Playgroup — Gift Cards for snack program
Harry Balfour School — Gift Cards for school snack program
Peace Wapiti Academy High School — Gift Cards for school snack program
St. Stephen's Catholic School (Valleyview) — Gift Cards for school snack program
Whispering Ridge School — Water for Halloween Dance
GPPL Sewing retreat — Door Prize
Glitz'd Boutique — Silent Auction for Fundraiser Gala
Iosegun Manor — Bronze Leaf Sponsorship
Beaverlodge Area Cultural Society — Tea Room Sponsorship
Hythe Regional High School — Donut Fundraiser Sponsorship
Paizley's Purses & Bentley's Backpacks foundation — Gift card for Gala
Riverstone Parents Society — Sponsorship towards Pumpkin Fundraiser
October
GP Catholic Family Services — October 3% Thursday recipient
Salvation Army – October 3% Thursday recipient
Grande Cache Transition House — October 3% Thursday recipient
Valleyview Food Bank — October 3% Thursday recipient
Sexsmith Food Bank — October 3% Thursday recipient
Hythe Food Bank — October 3% Thursday recipient
McKenzie Place — October Residents Birthday Cake
Grande Prairie & District Golden Age Centre — October Pancake Breakfast Sponsorship
Grande Prairie Auxiliary Hospital Foundation — October Coin Box recipient
C. Moore In Education — Gift card towards snacks for autism social group
Ecole St. Gerard School — Gift cards for Playground Fundraiser
Riverstone School — Donation towards pumpkin fundraiser
Paizely's Purses & Bentey's Backpacks Fundraiser — Gift card for Silent Auction
Hythe Regional High School — Donation towards donuts for school fundraiser
Northern Light Show — Cooper Lights at Evergreen Park
Oscar Adolphson Primary School — Gift Cards for school snack program
Hillside Jr. Sr. High School — Gift Card Fundraiser for school trip
Crickett Crushes Cancer — Silent Auction item
4H Alberta — New membership sponsorship
Cerebral Palsy Alberta — Sponsorship for Valleyview "Splash Time" and "Pony and Me" Therapy
Rotary Clubs of Grande Prairie — Dessert for Dessert Auction
Hythe Community Center — Silent Auction Item for New Year's Eve Fundraiser Gala
NOWDS — Silent Auction item for fundraiser
Peace Wapiti Band Class — Refreshment Sponsor for PWA Band Fundraiser
Roy Bickell School — Door Prize for Family Movie Night
Northwestern Polytechnic Students Association — Food Sponsorship for "Room of Plenty" on-campus food bank
Grande Prairie Regional Hospital Foundation — Liquor Basket for 2day FM's Father Daughter Ball
Golden Age Centre — October Pancake Breakfast
Holy Cross Catholic School — School Snack Program
Girouxville Club Etoile — Gift Cards for Chilli & a Bun Supper
Grande Prairie & Area Safe Communities — Halloween Candy for Trick-or-Treating Event
Centre d'Auppui de la Famille et de l'Enfrance Nord-Ouest — Gift Cards for Christmas Family Brunch
Sexsmith and District Museum Society — Silent Auction Item Donation
Sexsmith Secondary School Travel Club — Silent Auction Item for Fundraiser
McLennan Golden Age Centre — Full Slab Cake for Senior's Celebration
November
United Way — Nov Coin Box recipient
Odyssey House — Nov 3% Thursday recipient
Wapiti House – Nov 3% Thursday recipient
Grande Cache Food Bank — Nov 3% Thursday recipient
Fairview Food Bank — Nov 3% Thursday recipient
Beaverlodge Food Bank — Nov 3% Thursday recipient
Wembley United Church Food Bank — Nov 3% Thursday recipient
South Peace Rural Community Learning — Gift Card for school programming
McKenzie Place — November Resident Cake
The Grande Prairie Boys Choir Society — Cookies, juice boxes and oranges for concert
Odyssey House — Adopt-A-Family
Wapiti Wellness Society — Sponsorship for aquatic therapy program
Wapiti House — Jackets for the house
Busy Bee Daycare — Pumpkins for daycare
Golden Age Centre — November Pancake Breakfast
FABuLAS — Giftcard for Falher Christmas Expo
Georges P. Vanier School — Gift card for their school trip fundraiser
Derek Taylor Public School — Cookies icing and sprinkles for Family Holiday Carnival
Kids in Care Christmas — Cookies icing and sprinkles for Family Holiday Carnival
Aspen Grove School — Gift cards for Christmas Family program
Grande Prairie Care Centre — A variety of trays for Family Christmas Tea Party
Grande Prairie Public Library — Cookies icing and sprinkles for Holiday PJ Party
Ecole Heritage School — Gift Card Fundraiser in Falher
FCC Hunger — Food for food drive in Falher
Lions Club of Rycroft & District — Hams for Turkey and Ham Holiday Bingo
Helping Hands Society of Grande Prairie — Box of Bread Bags
December
McKenzie Place — December Residents Birthday Cake
Grande Prairie & District Golden Age Centre — December Pancake Breakfast Sponsorship
Good Buy to Hunger — December Coin Box recipient
Grande Prairie Friendship Centre — December 3% Thursday recipient
GPYESS Sunrise House – December 3% Thursday recipient
Grande Cache Food Bank — December 3% Thursday recipient
Fairview Food Bank — December 3% Thursday recipient
Beaverlodge Food Bank — December 3% Thursday recipient
Wembley United Church Food Bank — December 3% Thursday recipient
Veterans Association Food Bank Grande Prairie — Hams for Christmas Dinners
Red Apple Toy Drive Falher — Cookies
Christmas Convoy — Donuts
Ecole Heritage School — Milk sponsorship
Clairmont Community School — Cookies for Christmas Carnival
IV Macklin School — Gift card to help with Christmas School Dinner
Daphna Homecare & Supports — Gift card to help purchase hygiene products & food for new home
Swanavon School — Gift Card to help with Christmas Lantern Fundraiser
County of GP Firefighters Charitable Foundation — Turkey's for Christmas Hampers
