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Everyone from politicians to corporate sponsors to a gorgeous group of wives from the Ottawa Senators hockey team turned out Friday morning to help fill a record-number of food hampers for families in need of a Christmas dinner this holiday season.
The Caring and Sharing Exchange event, held at the spacious and airy Horticulture Building at Lansdowne, drew Mayor Jim Watson and his colleagues, city councillors Keith Egli and Jean Cloutier, Ottawa West-Nepean’s new MP, Anita Vandenbeld, and Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi.
City councillor Jean Cloutier and Mayor Jim Watson were among the volunteers helping to pack 700 food hampers on Friday, December 18, 2015, at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne for the Caring and Sharing Exchange and its annual Christmas Exchange Program.
Liberal Ottawa West-Nepean MP Anita Vandenbeld was among the volunteers helping to pack 700 food hampers on Friday, December 18, 2015, at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne for the Caring and Sharing Exchange and its annual Christmas Exchange Program.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau couldn’t make it but he did send gifts.
Melinda Currey, who’s dating Ottawa Senators captain Erik Karlsson, sits on the charity’s campaign cabinet. Her family’s business, Currey Insurance Agencies, was one of the gold sponsors. She, along with Sens wives Karen Michalek, Danielle Ryan and Julie Turris, were among the volunteers seen filling up boxes with food.
From left, Ottawa Senator spouses Danielle Ryan (wife of Bobby Ryan), Caring and Sharing Exchange campaign cabinet member Melinda Currey (girlfriend to Erik Karlsson), Julie Turris (wife of Kyle Turris) and Karen Michalek (wife of Milan Michalek) were among the volunteers helping to pack 700 food hampers on Friday, December 18, 2015, at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne for the Caring and Sharing Exchange and its annual Christmas Exchange Program.
Patent lawyer Natalie Raffoul, head of the Caring and Sharing Exchange campaign cabinet, was there with her young kids. So was busy mom Louise Malhotra from the Malhotra Family Foundation. Also seen was the charity’s board president, labour lawyer Paul Lalonde, who was pleased to report a 75-per-cent hike in the number of food hampers being provided this year.
It was a family effort for Caring and Sharing Exchange campaign cabinet chair Natalie Raffoul, seen with her husband, Mark Hubert, and their three kids, Jacob, seven, Sophia, four, and Eva, three, at the food hamper packing event for the organization’s Christmas Exchange Program, held at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne on Friday, December 18, 2015.
The organization has been celebrating the 100th anniversary of its Christmas Exchange Program. It was started by the Ottawa Welfare Bureau in 1915 to help the families of soldiers off at war. The program has gone on to assist more than one million people over the years and will help thousands more this Christmas through its redeemable gift vouchers, donated hampers and the 700 hampers assembled at the corporate hamper packing day at Lansdowne.
This year, the charity has already pulled through for nearly 15,000 people but still has another 1,000 on its waiting list.
Watson, who is a long-time supporter of the Christmas Exchange, called it “the most pragmatic charity around” with its simple goal of ensuring that men, women and children get to enjoy something that many of us take for granted: a proper Christmas dinner. The room also heard from Naqvi, who shared his experience of delivering hampers to recipients, some of whom live in rooming houses and affordable housing and who face social isolation, depression and other challenges. “I just wanted … you to know that you are making a tremendous impact, an incredible impact in the lives of people who really don’t get to see much joy,” said Naqvi.
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The Caring and Sharing Exchange event, held at the spacious and airy Horticulture Building at Lansdowne, drew Mayor Jim Watson and his colleagues, city councillors Keith Egli and Jean Cloutier, Ottawa West-Nepean’s new MP, Anita Vandenbeld, and Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi.
City councillor Jean Cloutier and Mayor Jim Watson were among the volunteers helping to pack 700 food hampers on Friday, December 18, 2015, at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne for the Caring and Sharing Exchange and its annual Christmas Exchange Program.
Liberal Ottawa West-Nepean MP Anita Vandenbeld was among the volunteers helping to pack 700 food hampers on Friday, December 18, 2015, at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne for the Caring and Sharing Exchange and its annual Christmas Exchange Program.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau couldn’t make it but he did send gifts.
Melinda Currey, who’s dating Ottawa Senators captain Erik Karlsson, sits on the charity’s campaign cabinet. Her family’s business, Currey Insurance Agencies, was one of the gold sponsors. She, along with Sens wives Karen Michalek, Danielle Ryan and Julie Turris, were among the volunteers seen filling up boxes with food.
From left, Ottawa Senator spouses Danielle Ryan (wife of Bobby Ryan), Caring and Sharing Exchange campaign cabinet member Melinda Currey (girlfriend to Erik Karlsson), Julie Turris (wife of Kyle Turris) and Karen Michalek (wife of Milan Michalek) were among the volunteers helping to pack 700 food hampers on Friday, December 18, 2015, at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne for the Caring and Sharing Exchange and its annual Christmas Exchange Program.
Patent lawyer Natalie Raffoul, head of the Caring and Sharing Exchange campaign cabinet, was there with her young kids. So was busy mom Louise Malhotra from the Malhotra Family Foundation. Also seen was the charity’s board president, labour lawyer Paul Lalonde, who was pleased to report a 75-per-cent hike in the number of food hampers being provided this year.
It was a family effort for Caring and Sharing Exchange campaign cabinet chair Natalie Raffoul, seen with her husband, Mark Hubert, and their three kids, Jacob, seven, Sophia, four, and Eva, three, at the food hamper packing event for the organization’s Christmas Exchange Program, held at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne on Friday, December 18, 2015.
The organization has been celebrating the 100th anniversary of its Christmas Exchange Program. It was started by the Ottawa Welfare Bureau in 1915 to help the families of soldiers off at war. The program has gone on to assist more than one million people over the years and will help thousands more this Christmas through its redeemable gift vouchers, donated hampers and the 700 hampers assembled at the corporate hamper packing day at Lansdowne.
This year, the charity has already pulled through for nearly 15,000 people but still has another 1,000 on its waiting list.
Watson, who is a long-time supporter of the Christmas Exchange, called it “the most pragmatic charity around” with its simple goal of ensuring that men, women and children get to enjoy something that many of us take for granted: a proper Christmas dinner. The room also heard from Naqvi, who shared his experience of delivering hampers to recipients, some of whom live in rooming houses and affordable housing and who face social isolation, depression and other challenges. “I just wanted … you to know that you are making a tremendous impact, an incredible impact in the lives of people who really don’t get to see much joy,” said Naqvi.
From left, Ottawa patent and trademark lawyers Paula Clancy and Natalie Raffoul, the latter of whom is chair of the Caring and Sharing Exchange campaign cabinet, were both at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne on Friday, December 18, 2015, for the charity's Christmas hamper packing event. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi and city councillor Keith Egli were among the volunteers helping to pack 700 food hampers on Friday, December 18, 2015, at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne for the Caring and Sharing Exchange and its annual Christmas Exchange Program.
From left, Tracy Taggart and Michelle Rait-Parkes, representing the Parkes-Taggart Foundation, were among the volunteers helping to pack 700 food hampers on Friday, December 18, 2015, at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne for the Caring and Sharing Exchange and its annual Christmas Exchange Program. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
From left, Melinda Currey, Caring and Sharing Exchange campaign cabinet member and girlfriend to Ottawa Senators captain Erik Karlsson, seen with Ottawa Senators wives Julie Turris and Danielle Ryan, helped to pack 700 food hampers on Friday, December 18, 2015, at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne for the charity's annual Christmas Exchange Program. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
From left, Phil Dame (COO of Ramius Corporation), Justin Shimoon (CEO of AffinityClick), Alfred Jay (CEO of Ramius Corporation), Brandon Weselnuk (CEO of Tattoo Hero), Ross Rowan-Legg (CIBC Wood Gundy), all of whom are members of the Caring and Sharing Exchange campaign cabinet, at the charity's food hamper packing event held Friday, December 18, 2015, at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
From left, Ottawa Senator spouses Danielle Ryan (wife of Bobby Ryan), Caring and Sharing Exchange campaign cabinet member Melinda Currey (girlfriend to Erik Karlsson), Julie Turris (wife of Kyle Turris) and Karen Michalek (wife of Milan Michalek) were among the volunteers helping to pack 700 food hampers on Friday, December 18, 2015, at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne for the Caring and Sharing Exchange and its annual Christmas Exchange Program. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
From left, cabinet member Sarah Grand with Stephanie Appotive of Howard Fine Jewellers and lawyer Natalie Raffoul, chair of the Caring and Sharing Exchange campaign cabinet, at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne on Friday, December 18, 2015, for the local charity's Christmas hamper packing event. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
Cindy Smith, executive director of the Caring and Sharing Exchange, with its board president, Paul Lalonde, a partner with law firm Emond Harnden, at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne on Friday, December 18, 2015, for the organization's Christmas Exchange Program food hamper packing day. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
Busy mom Louise Malhotra, from the Malhotra Family Foundation, had sons Dylan and Tyler and daughter Maddy helping to fill the food hampers at an event organized by the Caring ahd Sharing Exchange for its Christmas Exchange Program, held at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne on Friday, December 18, 2015. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
City councillor Jean Cloutier and Mayor Jim Watson were among the volunteers helping to pack 700 food hampers on Friday, December 18, 2015, at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne for the Caring and Sharing Exchange and its annual Christmas Exchange Program. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
Liberal Ottawa West-Nepean MP Anita Vandenbeld was among the volunteers helping to pack 700 food hampers on Friday, December 18, 2015, at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne for the Caring and Sharing Exchange and its annual Christmas Exchange Program. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
Volunteers helping to pack 700 food hampers on Friday, December 18, 2015, at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne for the Caring and Sharing Exchange and its annual Christmas Exchange Program. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
Volunteers helping to pack 700 food hampers on Friday, December 18, 2015, at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne for the Caring and Sharing Exchange and its annual Christmas Exchange Program. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
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