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April 24, 2018

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The dinner had 16 volunteers from ESSC. Who spent the evening rushing about as they helped at the door, serving tables and much more. The volunteers included Gabrielle Thibault, Zoé-Pier Thérrien, Caley Stewart, Danie Paré-Paul, Heidi Newberry, Kathie Nadeau, Cédrick Morrissette, Vanessa Morin, Eve Laroche, Audrey Laporte, Maude Hérault, Rianna Gervais, Zachary Dubé, Alexia Desrochers, Abbie Dawn Bruyère and Gabrielle Beaudoin.

The CLSC Pontiac Foundation held a fundraising dinner and dance on April 21 at the Knights of Columbus Hall, raising over $35,000 before their expenses. President of the organization, Anne Amyotte, said she was thankful for everyone’s support and is looking forward to what the foundation will achieve with the money raised.

Donald Teuma-Castelletti
FORT COULONGE
April 21, 2018
Supporters for the various Pontiac centres local de services communautaires (CLSC) attended an evening of music, food and dancing on Saturday, all waited upon by some local young volunteers.
The Knights of Columbus Hall in Fort Coulonge saw around 180 guests on Saturday night, raising over $35,000 for the CLSC Pontiac Foundation at the organization’s fundraiser dinner and dance, featuring local rockers The Blast as entertainment.
“This fundraiser hopefully will help us have money in the bank, so we can help more programs,” said CLSC Pontiac Foundation President Anne Amyotte.
Amyotte said the evening had a special focus for their fundraising, which was to support the purchase of an ultrasound machine for the CLSC Mansfield location.
“I don’t think they have anything right now to diagnose internally, if somebody comes in,” said Amyotte, of the need for the machine. “So it will be an instrument they can use when the x-ray department is closed.”

As well, the foundation will also use their fundraising towards helping house calls across the Pontiac.
“We also help the in-home care throughout the Pontiac, from Terry Fox Road to Rapides des Joachim,” said Amyotte. “They have needs and they’re putting in requests for different types of tools or instruments that they need.”
She continued to say that supporting expensive costs for programs across the area is a challenge, but is made much more manageable with tremendous support from the community, businesses and other organizations.
“We’re not known as much as we would like to be and that’s one of our goals, to let the population know that we exist,” said Amyotte.
Despite their lack of name recognition, the fundraiser saw a generous amount of support and some large donations. In total, $35,399.35 was raised, before expenses were paid.
One organizational donor, TransporAction, said that supporting the CLSC Pontiac Foundation is of great importance for them, as the groups work as excellent allies. TransporAction’s services benefit many patients in need of care at the CLSCs, so they were pleased to be out to support the foundation as much as they could.
While fundraising was the main objective that evening, a group of high school students decided they could best help through a different kind of donation. Sacrificing their Saturday evening, 16 students from École secondaire Sieur de Coulonge were volunteer waiters and waitresses, rushing about to keep plates full and tables happy.
“Twenty-one wanted to come,” said Amyotte, of the volunteers’ numbers. “We could only use 12, but we have 16. They all wanted to come.”

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