REALTORS Care Foundation – Motorcycle Ride for Charity
It’s that time of year again, when the motorcycles come out and REALTORS® RIDE for Charity. (more…)
Upcoming Event – Annual Charity Golf Tournament
The Annual RAHB Charity Golf Tournament is coming up on Thursday, June 27 at Copetown Woods Golf Club. This event supports RAHB’s two charitable endeavours: the Home Ownership Affordability Partnership (HOAP) and the Karan Barker Memorial Scholarship Fund and cost $160 plus HST (includes: lunch, dinner, golf (best ball), cart, entrance gift, photo and contests. Register Today!
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REALTORS® Care – Salvation Army Golf Tournament
RAHB member Dave Sohal (Bridgecan Realty Corp.) invites RAHB members to participate in the 11th Annual Salvation Army Golf Day. The event will take place on Thursday, May 30, 2013 at the Beverly Golf and Country Club. Registration fee is $200 per person, and includes 18 holes of golf with power cart, barbecue lunch, dinner, prizes and awards.
Sponsorships for the event are also available. Contact Dave Sohal at 905.526.7551 for more information or to register.
RAHB Annual Charity Golf Tournament
REALTORS® Care – It was a close shave
RAHB members Ron Howden (Chase Realty Inc.) and Ron Hewitt (RE/MAX Escarpment Realty Inc.) engaged in some friendly bidding to benefit their local Rotary Club in Caledonia, Ontario on November 24.
Ron Hewitt grew a moustache for Movember, then offered the rights to shave it off in the annual auction. Howden tried to come in with the winning bid, but Hewitt outbid him to save his face from being subjected to an inexperienced barber. Hewitt’s bid to shave off his own moustache came in at $310.
“It was all in good fun,” said Howden, “and for a good cause.”
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Bowling for Dollars – Royal LePage Burloak Style
Royal LePage Burloak Real Estate Services held its third annual Charity Hallowe’en Chili Bowl on October 24, 2012 at the Burlington Bowl. The event raised just over $2,000 for Halton Women’s Place and The Carpenter Hospice. (more…)
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Call for Candidates – REALTORS Care Foundation
The affairs of the REALTORS Care Foundation are managed by a Board of Directors comprised of both elected and appointed members. The REALTORS Care Foundation Board has openings for four elected Directors for the 2013 term. (more…)
RAHB Annual Charity Auction
Come out to the RAHB Charity Auction, the auction that helps give a child a Christmas!
RAHB’s annual Charity Auction supports the CHML/Y108 Children’s Fund, which distributes funds to children’s charities in the Hamilton/Burlington area and toys on behalf of Operation Santa Claus. (more…)
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Heat didn’t stop Riders
Thirty riders – including RAHB members Jamie Edwards, Bruce King and Sherry Police – participated in the one-day REALTORS Care Foundation Motorcycle RIDE for Charity and raised over $25,000 for the Foundation. All proceeds from the ride will go toward supporting shelter-related organizations across Ontario.
The ride took place on July 4 and participants followed a route from the OREA office in Don Mills to Niagara Falls.
Bruce King, a long-time participant in the RIDE, said, “the boards we visited were very generous in their support, both by way of their direct support of the Realtors Care Foundation and by way of their providing refreshments to tired, sore and overheated bikers.”
Small office raises big money!
Homelife Power Realty Inc. gathered together 29 friends and family members to ride a big bike in the Heart & Stroke Big Bike Ride. The Ride took place in Grimsby on July 10. The Homelife team was one of ten participating in the event, and raised $5,400 – just shy of half the total proceeds for the bike ride that day.
All riders on the Homelife team were riding in memory of member Shirley Kuyvenhoven’s brother Brad, who passed away this year from a stroke at age 55. This year’s ride was the first of what will become an annual event for the Homelife Power office.
RAHB Charity Auction & Social
RAHB Charity Auction & Social
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Keller Williams Edge sees RED
Thursday, May 10 was RED Day for members and staff of the Keller Williams Edge Realty office, when they adopted a clinic at the Blood Donor Clinic in Burlington.
RED stands for Renew, Energize and Donate. On the second Tuesday in May, Keller Williams associates across Canada and the US participate in a wide range of projects to renew and energize their communities. The Burlington office chose blood donation, and are pleased to report that the 19 units of blood they donated will impact the lives of 57 people.
The Keller Williams Edge Realty office is now part of Canadian Blood Services’ Partners for Life program and has committed to donating a total of 30 units of blood this year. They encourage RAHB members to consider donating blood as, on average, every minute of every day, someone in Canada needs blood.
Blood donation was Keller Williams Edge’s RED Day project for 2012; they are already planning how they will support their community on RED Day next year.
Mario Loranger climbs stairs for a good cause
How do you raise awareness and funds for a great cause? If you are Mario Loranger (RE/MAX Escarpment Realty Inc.), you climb stairs. The Wentworth stairs. Fifty times in one day. in the rain.
It took Mario 10 hours and 48 minutes to complete his 25,000 stair climb on June 9, 2012, and for his efforts he raised over $1,200 for Beginnings Family Services.
Beginnings Family Services is an agency which offers counseling and support for young women who face an unplanned pregnancy; it also offers adoption services. Mario and his wife Pat became part of the Beginnings family when they adopted two children through the agency. Mario now sits on the Board of the Beginnings Foundation, where his focus is raising funds for the agency to continue its work.
Being on the Board wasn’t enough for Mario – he decided to get more personally involved and raise funds himself by going back to his old fitness routine of 15 years ago – climbing the Wentworth stairs. This time, he trained with one goal in mind: climbing the stairs 50 times in one day to raise awareness of and funds for Beginnings Family Services.
Mario says that the support he received from his office, friends and family while he trained and on climbing day was instrumental to his success in this endeavour. He noted in particular the help he received from Salesperson Christine Crooks – who supplied, free of charge, a protein supplement to keep Mario going during his stair climb – and on-going support from Broker of Record Conrad Zurini.
Mario is already thinking about what will be his next fundraising event on behalf of Beginnings Family Services. He doesn’t have any details yet, but he’s pretty sure it will still involve climbing those stairs.
For more information about Beginnings Family Services, go to www.beginnings.ca.
Royal LePage Niagara raises funds for local charities
Royal LePage Niagara Real Estate Centre has been busy fundraising for various charities in their community. So far this year, they have contributed:
$16,000 for the opening of the McNally House (and they are now raising money for a chair!)
$2,000 to the Grimsby Benevolent Fund
$1,500 to Gillian’s Place/Niagara Second Stage House
$500 to the Smithville Food Bank
$500 to Rose Cottage, Grimsby
$200 to Tanya Verbeek for Olympics
$150 to Niagara Children’s Centre
$100 to Big Brothers Bike Ride
Another office demonstrating how much REALTORS® care!
Royal LePage Golf Tournament raises funds for charity
Royal LePage Burloak Real Estate Services raised $28,000 for the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation at their 10th Annual Charity Golf Tournament at Crosswinds Golf and Country Club on June 13.
Over the past ten years, the Royal LePage Burloak Charity Golf Tournament has raised $175,000 for the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation, benefitting two local organizations – Halton Women’s Place and the Carpenter Hospice. Both of these organizations rely on community partners to help create awareness and keep their programs running.