This weekend was very busy with Christmas events. To begin with, Saturday and Sunday saw firefighters, RCMP members, District of Sooke staff, members of the Emergency Program and EHS members all out collecting food items and cash for the Sooke Christmas Bureau. Working in front of Western Foods, Village Foods and Shoppers Drug Mart from 10 to 4 each day, these community minded volunteers collected a pick up truck load of food and approximately $3700.00 in cash and checks. What an amazing display of generosity by this community. Volunteers will be out again in force next weekend at these same locations. Then on Dec 16, 17 and 18 we will try the first ever Fire Hall Drive Thru campaign were local citizens can simply drive into the fire hall and make a donation without ever leaving their cars. Don't forget the Santa Run on December 17th. Santa will begin touring the communities of Sooke, Otter Point and East Sooke in fire trucks beginning at 5:00 pm. Watch for the December 14th edition of the Sooke News Mirror for specially marked grocery bags showing all the route information.
Firefighters also spent the afternoon decorating Engine 1 for the Sooke Christmas Parade. This may have been the biggest and best parade ever as it was a beautiful sunny day and the streets were lined with spectators. This was followed an hour later by the lighting of the Christmas trees in front of evergreen mall.
Thanks very much to all the volunteers that helped this weekend. What a great effort and hopefully we will see as much, if not more of this next weekend.
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