The Parent Advisory Council (PAC) and the TPS Student Council in a cooperative initiative raised $4,659 for the Red Door Family
Shelter. The Red Door Family Shelter helps families, refugees and women who are fleeing violence .
Since 1982, the Red Door has provided services for families and individuals who need safe and supportive emergency shelter. Back in
1982 there was only one other shelter operating in Toronto. The Woodgreen United Church responded to the growing need for more
shelters for homeless families and the Red Door was opened as a result.
Many people can find themselves in desperate need. These include women who have experienced violence at home, families who get
evicted, refugees, or young mothers who may have nowhere to go. The people who use our services are moms with children; followed
by intact families, and dads with children.
Wednesday, December 8th was Red Door Family Shelter Day at TPS with a wide range of activities intended to bolster our fund
raising.
From 9:00-10:00 AM muffins, bagels, donuts and drinks in the school cafeteria were sold; from 12:30-1:30 PM a pizza lunch combo
was made available, the holding of a "red" theme trivia contest (pay to participate) with a chance to win a gift basket filled with
chocolate, and at 1:00 PM a draw for an Apple iPad (students sold over 3100 raffle tickets for $1.00 each). Students were also asked
to wear an item of red on the day and if they are found to be without a red item in their wardrobe that day, they had to pay a fine of
$1.00. During lunch there were also a "guess how many red kisses are in the jar" and other candy contests (pay to participate).
The school was decorated with red ribbons and signs adorned the school hallways, highlighting the charity and its good work!
Everyone in the school came together for this very worthy cause, but special mention must go to the following:

• Suzy Rodness (PAC) and Robyn Maister - Student Council for organizing it and for working all day to make sure everything went off
without a hitch.
• Ashely Sanderson and her family for donating $500.00.
• The Cupcake Shoppe for donating 250 cupcakes.
• Gerald Maister for donating all the signs.
• PAC donated Tim Hortons breakfast and pizza lunch.
• Chaplick Family donated all the drinks
• Rodness Family donated candy prizes and decorations.
• TPS donated iPad with all features including 2 year extended warranty.
Candy Prize Winners - People had to guess the weight of the candy and the container. Lori Boudreau won most of the categories and
donated the candy back so the runner-ups could enjoy some holiday cheer. Other winners were: Ryan Mintz, Elissia Aycan, Michael
Borinsky, and Jeff Roebuck,
Winner of the ipad was Susan Yak, mother of Shane Rumack.

Thank you so much for all your donations to the Terry Fox Charity.

We are proud to announce that we surpassed our goal of $17,000. In total, we collected a whopping $20,000.  A special thanks goes to Mr. Cowan’s first period class who raised $1395 and are the winners of a pizza lunch. Honourable mention goes to Mr. Pizzuto’s first period class who raised $1170 and to Mr. Pascos’s first period class who raised $1145.  Also, a very special thanks to Mason Cohen who collected the most online donations with $800.