{"id":1286,"date":"2012-12-02T15:36:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T20:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2012-12-02T15:37:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T20:37:19","slug":"kidsdanc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/kidsdanc\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Dance Fundraiser Still Raising Cash for Montreal Children\u2019s Hospital Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LaSalle’s Dans’Atout a leading sponsor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The organizers behind the second Kids Danse pour Enfants<\/em> dropped off cheques worth $10,519.98 today (Wednesday, November 29) to the Montreal Children\u2019s Hospital Foundation, but there\u2019s more to come.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not going to announce the final figures until January because I\u2019m still getting donations in,\u201d said Catherine Fyfe, the Montreal originator of the event, which took place on November 10 at Pierrefonds Comprehensive High School. \u201cI\u2019m getting the cheques I have now to the hospital this week so that most of the tax receipts can go out before the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event celebrated dancing and generosity. Some 600 children and their parents got to watch competitive teams perform and then they got up with them and danced for twenty minutes or so. Later, dance instructors taught them a few steps for more fun. There was also a silent auction for more than $17,000 in goods and services donated by Montreal businesses.<\/p>\n

Fyfe and the five other organizers won\u2019t have the final tally about how much their effort garnered until after the Montreal Children\u2019s Hospital Foundation fundraising gala in May. That\u2019s when one of their donated items\u2014a 7-by-11ft Turkish carpet in Wedgewood Blue wool on wool\u2014will be sold.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been amazing,\u201d said Fyfe. \u201cPeople\u2019s generosity has just bowled me over. Everyone from volunteers to sponsors has been so helpful. People would just phone us up out of the blue to offer time and ideas to promote the event.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the sponsors who helped was Melanie Beaudet who runs Dans’Atout Studio in LaSalle. Beaudet\u2019s competition team performed and two of her instructors, Ashley Couture and Alexandra Pileggi, led the kids in dancing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that anything that can help kids in general, we\u2019re very keen on doing,\u201d said Beaudet. \u201cOur kids love to dance. The plus was that they got to dance with the kids afterwards for a good 15 or 20 minutes. That was a lot of fun. This is an event that we\u2019re definitely going to again next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fyfe, who describes herself as a bored stay-at-home mom who would work in a charitable organization if she could, is definitely keen on organizing the event next year. She says she\u2019d like three more people on the organizing team, though, because things got a bit too hectic this year. \u201cFor three weeks, this is all I did.<\/p>\n

For the final tally and information about next year when it\u2019s available, refer to the event website at www.duonsinc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Note: This article appeared on page 2 of the City version of the Suburban on Wednesday, November 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The organizers behind the second Kids Danse pour Enfants dropped off cheques worth $10,519.98 today (Wednesday, November 29) to the Montreal Children\u2019s Hospital Foundation, but there\u2019s more to come. \u201cWe are not going to announce the final figures until January because I\u2019m still getting donations in,\u201d said Catherine Fyfe, the Montreal originator of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-report","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2buQs-kidsdanc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16436,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/joseph-pugliese-wins-community-cares-award\/","url_meta":{"origin":1286,"position":0},"title":"Joseph Pugliese wins Community Cares award","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"April 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Congratulations to LaSalle resident Joseph Pugliese, who has won the 2015 Montreal Community Cares Community Organization Award for community leadership. \u201cI thought it was a crank caller when he called,\u201d said Pugliese, who is thrilled to have won. 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