You don't even have to get out of your vehicle to support local organizations, win prizes, and start your day off right.
The 22nd annual United Way BC North Okanagan Drive-Thru Breakfast is slated for Wednesday, Oct. 2, from 6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., at the Prestige Vernon Lodge and Conference Centre.
Drive-Thru guests who make a donation will receive Tim Horton’s coffee and muffins, delicious treats, and giveaways from The Morning Star, Nature's Fare and Lake City Casinos on their way to pick-up their breakfast bags. If you’re lucky, you’ll also get one of the many prizes hidden in the bags, like travel vouchers, resort stays, gift cards and more.
A minimum $20 donation is suggested.
You will be able to pre-order a minimum of 10 bags and collect them at the location. Details on that will be announced soon.
If you’re a local business and you would like to go above and beyond in support of this year’s event, you can:
• Pre-order breakfast bags for your staff;
• Make a donation of $100 or more to join United Way's Community Champions Circle;
• Donate a prize;
• Become a sponsor (to donate prize or become sponsor, contact Sonya Krajsek at Sonyak@uwbc.ca.
Among the hidden prizes in the bags are gift cards to businesses including Armstrong Co-Op, Nature's Fare ($150), Butcher Boys ($100), Safeway ($100), Browns Socialhouse ($50), Swan Lake Market ($50), Lake City Casino ($250 gift card to Match Eatery and Public House), as well as lift tickets from SilverStar Mountain Resort and Revelstoke Mountain Resort, and rounds of golf from Vernon Golf and Country Club and Shannon Lake Golf Course in West Kelowna.
Breakfast bag items include Karma Vitamin Water: Elderberry Starfruit Karma Wellness Water; coupons from Nature's Fare, Armstrong Regional Cooperative, Healthy Spot Pet, Browns Socialhouse; apples from Davison Orchards; honey sticks from Planet Bee Honey Farm and Meadery; and product from Sun-Rype, Pythe Navis and Rancho Vignola Armstrong.
This year’s Drive-Thru Breakfast will help fund United Way BC initiatives in the North Okanagan region, including many that focus on children and youth. These initiatives support early childhood development, youth leadership, and out-of-school time activities, like School’s Out, Future Leaders, and others.
School’s Out is a program that ensures vulnerable school-aged children have access to safe spaces during after-school hours where they can receive mental wellness and developmental support.
You can help fund local United Way BC programs like this, that contribute to ensure kids and youth, from Revelstoke and Salmon Arm to Lumby and Vernon, have the life they need and deserve – building stronger, healthier communities.
