The GTA Construction Report – March 2009 – PAGE A3
Fundraisers help ‘raise the roof’ of a Dain City home
MATTHEW DESROSIERS – The GTA Construction Report Editor
“When you say it is ben-
efiting Habitat for Human-
Event management stu- students raise part of the ity, people are very
dents at Niagara College funds that go towards Habi- generous,” said Smith.
used their expertise to put tat Niagara.” The team also took pic-
together a series of events to The students started the tures of the construction site
benefit a Habitat for Hu- year in September with zero from the beginning, through
manity home in Dain City. dollars. Planning for their the build, and will continue
As part of their program, big events, they first had to until it’s completed. To-
students broke into four throw smaller events to raise gether with pictures from
groups to organize four sep- funds just to get started, the event, and a signed guest
arate events to benefit the Smith said. book, they will donate the
charity, with a goal of rais- Although the six-month album to Habitat for the
ing $2,500 per event, or project was a lot of work, family moving into the Dain
$10,000 as a whole. for Smith’s group, it became City home.
One such event, Raise more than just a class as- Nicole Smith (left), Janet Jakobsen, Hailley MacDonald, Kerri Stocks, Mia Bettio, Brittany The event sold out 152
the Roof, was an evening signment.
Newton, Chantal Muia, Catie Cordes, Jeannette Pieterse, Liana Curtis and Tim Moffat are
tickets at $40 a piece. At the
semi-formal dinner and “It was much more to
Event Management students at Niagara College who organized Raise the Roof, a
time of publication, the total
silent auction held on Feb- us,” she said. “It’s always
fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity Niagara.
money raised had yet to be
ruary 27 at the new Edge- nice to be able to go home cided they wanted to make a learning beyond just taking mural, so you were in a calculated, though Smith
water Terrace at Sparrow and have that security, but hands-on contribution to the a hammer and banging a kitchen to get some of the said she is confident they
Lakes Golf Club. these families don’t neces- house, so Smith, along with few nails. It was a success- (food). It was enough to met their goal.
“Niagara College has sarily have that security. Kerri Stocks, Mia Bettio and ful day not only because we give the feel, sense and idea “It was a magical night
been in partnership with Habitat provides that for Jeannette Pieterse stopped got something accom- of what it is that we’re from start to finish,” she
Habitat for the last three them across the world. It by the build site to lend a plished, but because we doing.” said. “The team worked
years,” said Nicole Smith, was that element that really hand. walked away with a greater They had food to please well together. Everybody
chairperson for the Raise the spoke to our hearts. We “We didn’t do anything understanding and a greater all palates, including hot and had such a good time.”
Roof group/event. “The Ni- want to be a part of giving too complex, but we got to appreciation of how to build cold hors d’oeuvres, pork Smith said her team
agara College construction people a hope for the future put up a vapour barrier,” a home.” tenderloin, white lasagna, worked hard from Septem-
program builds the house, and a place to call home.” said Smith. “It was a whole Planning the dinner various salads, and desserts ber on. Though they didn’t
and the event management Four group members de- lot of fun and a whole lot of event, Smith’s team decided that included cookies and a know each other at the be-
to focus in on the idea of the chocolate fountain. ginning of the year, every-
home. Everything about the They had a band, The one put aside their
evening was designed to re- Permtones, playing through- differences and kept focused
flect ‘home’. They accom- out the dinner portion of the on the goal, and that was
plished this in a rather evening, until a DJ took Habitat for Humanity.
unique way. over through the rest of the “We wanted to put on an
Throughout the hall, they night. event that would blow peo-
set up food stations de- There were 61 items do- ples’ minds and benefit
signed as different rooms in nated for the silent auction, Habitat, and that’s exactly
the house. One station cre- available for participants to what we did.”
ated the feel of a living bid on. Items included seven The Raise the Roof
room, complete with living nights accommodation in a group included Smith,
room furniture and a fire- two-bedroom condo at a re- Stocks, Bettio and Pieterse,
place. Other settings in- sort in Orlando, Florida; as well as Janet Jakobsen,
cluded a kitchen and a hockey tickets for the Ot- Hailley MacDonald, Brit-
garden patio. tawa Senators; Toronto Blue tany Newton, Chantal Muia,
“We had a kitchen which Jays family package; inte- Catie Cordes, Liana Curtis,
a professional artist painted rior design consultations, and Tim Moffat.
the backdrop for us as a and a long list of others.
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