Fundraiser

Several months ago I decided I was going to do a bottle drive (collect empty refundables) for the Michael Job Centre. It took a few months before I had a date set and someone (Jolanda, a good friend of mine) to help me collect. We began at 4:30 in the afternoon until about 6, it seemed like it was going fairly well: we had two truck loads plus more! A few days later we started the awful stinky sticky job of sorting them out.

Little by little we filled up bag after bag until finally we had sorted all the bottles. After this bottle drive I did a few little ones by myself and collected $133. A few weeks slipped by until we thought it was high time that we brought them away to the bottle depot in Agassiz. After filling up Jolanda's car and her dad's Dodge we drove down the highway, hazard lights flashing doing 40km. Once at the depot we unloaded the truck and car and began giving out numbers to the man in charge of the depot. When we counted the bottles, we wrote down the number that was in each bag and this definitely helped us now! The man began to enter in the numbers in his computer: 720 beer bottles, 78 wine bottles, 409 beer cans...and so the list went on. As he typed in each category we suspensfully watched the numbers climb higher and higher on the screen: $5, $47, $123....we had guessed $130 but the screen showed otherwise: $167! Jolanda and I looked at each other, quickly doing the calculations in our head: $400 (including the extra money given to me). This was way beyond our expectations. With a pocket full of money and a grin on our face we made our way back home. The money for this bottle drive will go to the Michael Job Centre to buy supplies such as medicine, textbooks, clothes and food for the orphans. Thanks everyone!