Milton’s annual “Coldest Night of the Year” a family friendly walk in support of Milton Transitional Housing (MTH) occurred on February 24th. The walk is in support of Milton Transitional Housing (mthmilton.ca). Milton Transitional Housing provides safe, subsidized transitional housing to individuals and families in crisis – while providing the support & resources needed to help families improve their current situations and graduate to independent living.
Miltonians came together to team up, fundraise, volunteer, walk, and take a moment to look closer… because it’s cold out there and now more than
ever people need our help. The walk consisted of 224 walkers, 29 teams and 76 volunteers and together raised $71,956.
Donna Danielli and Colin Best, MTH committee members spoke to the teams at the launch of the walk. “We have 25 volunteers along the route, both 2k and 5k, we also have 2 rest stops at the half way marks for both of them, where we have water and granola bars and when you come back we have soup and also dessert” said Colin Best.
I know you all want to get walking, so I’m going to hand this off to our own dancing queen, Pat Grisoni and Raheem the Dream, and they are going to walk to the front and lead you out and when you get back I’ll be here to cheer you on. Congratulations on everything you’ve done so far” added Donna.
This year the Top 3 Teams were Better Together $9,740 raised – Consisting of 7 local non- profit organizations including: Italian Cultural Centre of Milton, Sustainable Milton, Milton Muslim Moms, Rotary Club of Milton,
African Caribbean Council of Halton, Pack a Bag for a Friend Foundation and Prism.
Nassagaweya Presbyterian Church $9,220 raised – The Church is a vibrant family-friendly community of faith with the mission to help others experience a life changing relationship with Jesus. All are welcome. Member Phil Gartner raised the largest amount of all 224 walkers for the day with his amount of $5,320 raised of which $5,000 was from a donor who wanted to remain anonymous and simply listed their name as “Friend of CNOY”.
CFUW Milton (Canadian Federation of University Women)$6,260 raised – CFUW is an equality seeking advocacy organization of women working to enhance women’s rights and the lives of girls and women in Canada and around the world. You can follow them on facebook at facebook.com/cfuw milton.district/For more information about the walk, as well as the teams, walkers and photos you can visit their event page online at cnoy.org/locations/miltondowntownmain
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