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Upcoming Event December 6th, Vigil Please join us on Thursday, December 6th at Perth's Stewart Park Bandstand. We will gather together to mark the
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December 6th, Vigil
Please join us on Thursday, December 6th at Perth's Stewart Park Bandstand.
We will gather together to mark the National Day of Remembrance & Action on Violence Against Women.
Agenda
Welcome and candle lighting
Speakers:
- Erin Lee-Todd
- Gladys Radick
- Mayor John Fenick
- Kat Watson
Rose Ceremony
Closing Thanks
Refreshments
Come to remember the events that happened on this day in 1989 at l’École Polytechnique de Montréal. Acknowledge the impact that gender-based violence has on all of us. |
Kelly Sloan Presents A Vaudeville Variety Show!
Saturday, December 22nd, Almonte Old Town Hall
The holidays are a perfect time for many things: friends, family, music & giving.
This Dec. 22nd, we are combining all these things into one amazing night. It features a stellar line-up of musicians and performers all coming together to raise money for the Lanark County Interval House!
Come on out to support a great cause. You'll help us provide shelter & support to women & children in crisis situations. Come on out to support a great cause.
Tickets are available at Baker Bob's & Mill St. Books in Almonte.
Door prizes will be awarded to those who bring donations listed in the Shelter Wish List. A PDF version of the current wishlist can be downloaded from the following page on the LCIH website - http://lcih.org/about-us/shelter-wish-list/
Lanark County Interval House is very excited and honoured that Kelly has chosen to put on a show for our agency. We hope you'll all come out and fill the Old Town Hall. We're in for a great evening of amazing talent! |
Holiday Gift Donations
Each year our staff distributes holiday gifts to women and children we have worked with over the past calendar year.
We do this through the generosity of the community donations.
If you would like to donate a gift for a child, teen or woman, you can drop them:
In Carleton Place at:
▪ Valley Granite and Tile, 127 Bridge Street
▪ Old Train Station Visitor Centre and Art Gallery, 132 Coleman Street
in Perth:
▪ Dragon Moon, 2 Gore St E
▪ Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott Street
in Smiths Falls:
▪ Beauty and the Book, Beckwith St N in the Coldwell Banker/Rideau Heartland Building
▪ the Ontario Early Years' Centre, 91 Cornelia Street West, Suite 118.
This is the first year we've had gift depots. We thank these businesses very much for the help. And we thank all the donors for making this holiday bright for our client families.
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Please note the following:
* We are often short of gifts for older boys and teenagers.
* As a non-violent service, we cannot accept toys with weapons or violent movies or Wii games etc..
* We gratefully accept and distribute gift cards like phone cards, gift certificates for haircuts, or cards for grocery or drug stores, Walmart, Giant Tiger, Can Tire, Home Depot/Rona etc.
* Gifts are non-denominational holiday gifts.
* We are also in need of gift bags and wrapping paper
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For more information on how you can contribute to the holiday festivities at Lanark County Interval House, call 613-257-3469 |
Tickets on Sale for the CP Chamber's Comedy Nite!
Love to laugh? The Chamber is bringing some of the funniest comics in the region to perform for us - right here at the Carleton Place Town Hall Auditorium.
Looking for the perfect holiday present for that hard-t0-buy-for?
How about tickets for a fun family night out? Have a laugh together!
This licensed event happens February 16 at 7 p.m. And half of the proceeds will come to help run programs for our shelter and outreach programs!
Buy your tickets at the Old Train Station at 132 Coleman Street in Carleton Place! Or call 613-257-1976 for more information. |
The 24th Annual Women's Fair
What a wonderful day! Our Women's Fair welcomed over 700 visitors for a day of shopping, a fashion show, photo booths, delicious lunches and treats, auctions, draws and fun!
We would like to send a huge thank you out to everyone who contributed to this success - our amazingly talented volunteer organizing committee, the donors - sponsor businesses, cake bakers, silent auction prize donors, our vendors, our board member for making jars of jam, our MC and of course the small army of volunteers who came out to ensure every aspect of the fair ran smoothly.
Together we broke all records this year - by several thousand dollars!
This 24th Annual Women's Fair raised $14,000 for Lanark County Interval House programs and services! Thank you to everyone involved for your dedication and hard work. It is certainly making a huge impact!
If you are interested in joining us in planning the 25th Annual Women's Fair for next year, call 613-257-3469 x 27 |
 Some of our beautiful and talented organizing committee! |
Violet Femmes Girls Night Out Gala
Let's give a big shout out for another great Gala!
We had a fabulous night dancing the night away.
Our organizing committee outdid themselves this year with new decorations, a new variety of auction items and a volunteer bar!
Robin and Marissa, the unposed photographers added a whole new element of fun, taking amazing photographs for FREE of our beautiful women in all shades of purple.
We think this year's Violet Femmes Gala was the best one yet. Thanks to your generosity, the event raised close to $13,000! Breaking all records! Just amazing.
Thank you to everyone involved! Including the sponsors and the silent auction donors - And Static Salon for organizing the bar, designing the new centrepieces & building the lighted signs and of course for donating the wonderful take home gifts!
We couldn't do it without the help of all of these people and businesses.
Let's do it again next year!
Are you interested in joining us in planning the 6th Annual Violet Femmes Gala 2013? Call 613-257-3469 x 27 for more information. |
Word got out that LCIH needed funds and the community has certainly responded! We are so grateful for all of the support. Here are a few of the ongoing and recent events that people from the community put on themselves to raise funds for LCIH programs and services. |
Air Cadets fill the pantry shelves!
We want to send a warm thank you out to the Smiths Falls 585 Royal Canadian Air Cadets.
Instead of trick-or-treating for candy on Hallowe'en, the youth went door-to-door collecting food to help us with our high grocery bills!
Through the generosity of the community and the hard work of the cadets, the group managed to FILL the pantry with food to feed the families in the shelter!
It was a wonderful surprise for us and the items included many we don't usually have on our shopping list! Treat is right. Many thanks to everyone involved. |
Dazzling Divas and Shopping Sherpas came to visit!
We were so pleased to meet the Shopping Sherpas and the Queen of the Dazzling Diamond Divas at the shelter today. The ladies came to present a cheque from the their Wine and Cheese Fashion show and also a cheque from the Royal Canadian Legion. The event was a huge success and a lot of fun just like the organizers! |
Retro 80s Dance
Thank you to Valley Granite and Tile and everyone who made this event a huge success!
A special thank you to the organizing committee all the volunteers, the donating businesses and to everyone who came out to dance the night away! |
Angels Roost Tarot Event
Laurie McCann, Lise Guignard, Ann Gratton and Angels Roost Studio and Spa owner Kathy Blair surpassed their personal goal of raising $500, donating $660 to help fund the programs and services of Lanark County Interval House.
The women offered personal Tarot Reading and Henna Decorating on a cool and misty day in October. Patrons were treated to professional readings, as Ann and Lise have a combined 59 years of experience reading cards. |
Kids Are Super Gala
We want to send a huge thank you to the organizers of this fantastic kids' party.
The proceeds went to the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation and were then split between Lanark County Interval House and La Maison d’amite.
Those funds were also enhanced by the Scotiabank Employee Volunteer program.
LCIH would also like to send a special thank you to IBM. Like Scotiabank, IBM has an employee volunteering grant that was applied to the volunteer work done for this event. LCIH was the fortunate recipient.
In total, this two hour event raised over $7000 for the two shelters! What an amazing group of volunteers. Well done! |
Holiday dress-wear and decorations - As Good As New!
Why pay high mall prices when you can find gorgeous brand-name party clothes right here at 33 Bridge Street?
We have a diverse selection of ladies, men's and children's clothing and this week the shelves are full of holiday decorations too.
Come down to see for yourself and find great quality for a great cause! Plus you'll have a chance to enter your name to win a great prize basket all through the month of December.
We would also like to take an opportunity to acknowledge the hard work of all the As Good As New Store volunteers. The store is 100 per cent volunteer run and we rely heavily on their dedication, talent and know how to keep things running smoothly. When you go in, please say thanks from us! |
Bentall-Kennedy in the Community
Property maintenance is always a challenge at the shelter. With fewer staff and resources, some of of the seasonal chores that come with running a household often remain undone.
That's why we appreciate so much when a group comes to help us with these types of jobs.
A few weeks ago Bentall Kennedy sent us a mighty team to help prepare the building for winter. They raked leaves, trimmed branches, tidied the yards, cleaned the gutters and they even did windows!
They are a nice and hard-working group and a great company with a desire to 'give back' to the community. Thanks to Bentall Kennedy! |
Please Help Us Update Our Database
Last week we sent out our annual holiday mailing through Canada Post and this week we received a large number returned to sender.
If you didn't receive a letter this year, OR if you now have a new civic address to replace your Rural Route number, please email your mailing address to: heather@lcih.com or call 613-257-3469 x 27
Thank you for helping us ensure that our database is up-to-date. |
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Please forward to this newsletter to any friends who would like to receive it to their own email inbox. They can click this link to the sign-up form. |
Lanark County Interval House
Lanark County Interval House and the As Good as New Store have been a part of the community for over three decades. LCIH provides extensive support for children, youth and women fleeing family violence through its 24 hour crisis line, shelter and outreach programs. Services are free and confidential and women do not need to be a resident of the shelter to access them.
If you need help, you can contact the crisis line at
1-800-267-7946 or (613) 257-5960 or TTY: (613) 257-1952
If you are looking for more information about the agency or anything you've read in this newsletter, you can visit the website at www.lcih.com or call the administration line at 613-257-3469 |
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