A furniture drive is being held today for Oyate Tipi Cumini Yape, an organization that helps families in poverty and abusive situations. The organization needs dressers, kitchen table sets, pots and pans, blankets and pillows. The furniture can be brought to the Golf Dome parking lot on Wilkes Avenue from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Spiring getting 'roasted'
The Arthritis Society Manitoba/Nuvavut division is holding a fundraising celebrity roast of Charlie Spiring, chairman and CEO of Wellington West, on May 30. Tickets for the dinner and silent auction cost $150, while tables of 10 cost $1,350. For more information, call Jennifer McWilliams at 942-4892.
Calling all teddy bears
The Teddy Bears --- and children -- will be going to the 21st annual Teddy Bears' Picnic in Assiniboine Park on Sunday. The event, which runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and supports the Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba, gives children a chance to get their stuffed friends checked out by doctors, nurses and therapists at the B*A*S*H tent (Bears Ambulatory Surgical Hospital). The foundation will also benefit from the third annual Wal-Mart Walk for Miracles on June 10 in St. Vital Park.
Play golf, help charities
Upcoming charity golf tournaments include: Tulip Tee-Off Women Only Golf Tournament on June 21 for the Manitoba Down Syndrome Society. For more information, call Karen at 275-5927. The 10th annual Golf Tournament of Dreams on June 18 for The Rainbow Society at Niakwa Country Club. For more information call 989-4010. The PGI Golf Tournament for Literacy on June 11 at the Elmhurst Golf and Country Club. Call 253-8623 for more information. The 11th annual 50-hole Golf Marathon on June 18 for Teen Challenge. For more information call 949-9484.
Negev Gala coming
The Jewish National Fund of Canada Prairie region presents the Negev Gala fundraiser on June 12. Arnold Frieman, military veteran, Advance Electronics founder and community leader is this year's honoree. The gala at the Centennial Concert Hall at 8 p.m. features Rita, a chart-topping Israeli singer. For more information or tickets, call 947-0207 or go to www.jnf-winnipeg.org
Get moving for the kids
The 11th annual Cruisin' Down the Crescent fundraiser will walk, ride, roll, inline-skate or run on June 10 for the Rehabilitation Centre for Children Foundation, starting at the RCC on Wellington Crescent and going to Assiniboine Park. Pledge sheets are available at www.rccf.ca or by calling Chris at 477-4587.
Walk and camp
The Weekend to End Breast Cancer, benefiting CancerCare Manitoba, is on June 8 to 10. Thousands of participants will walk about 60 kilometres during the Saturday and Sunday of the event and stay in an overnight campsite complete with tents and hot showers. For more information go to www.endcancer.ca or call 256-9255.
Riding to fight cancer
The sixth annual motorcycle Breast Cancer Pledge Ride is on June 10. Motorcyclists register at the Pony Corral, Pier 7, at 1700 Pembina Hwy. between 10 a.m. and noon, then go on a sothern Manitoba run. Proceeds go to CancerCare Manitoba. For more information call Nicola at 787-1758 or go to www.breastcancerpledgeride.com
Eat and bid
The Manitoba Brain Injury Association and the University of Winnipeg Athletic Therapy Students' Association team with Manitoba Hydro to host the fifth annual Heads Up Dinner and Auction in Riddell Hall, University of Winnipeg on June 7, beginning at 5:30 p.m. For more information call 953-5354.
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