Bruce Power donates $10,000 to Goderich and Clinton Kinsmen TV auction

A $10,000 donation from Bruce Power has helped the Goderich and Clinton Kinsmen Clubs upgrade the equipment they use for their fund-raising TV auction, which raises thousands of dollars each year.

 

The funding helped the Kinsmen replace equipment that had been used for all 25 of the groups’ televised auctions. Without an equipment upgrade, the popular fund-raising auction was in peril, said Ryan McClinchey, a director with the Goderich Kinsmen Club.

 

“The Kinsmen were maintaining the old TV studio equipment, most of which was well over 25 years old and on borrowed time,” said McClinchey. “The replacement of the old equipment creates modern production and training environments to develop new community programming and involve more volunteers and youth. In addition to the weekly Lions TV Bingo and annual Kinsmen TV Auction, we are working with area charities and non-profit organizations to bring a diverse variety of new content available through our broadcast partners and over the Internet.”

 

Some of the group’s that receive money through the TV auction, are the Goderich Medical Centre, Huron YMCA, minor hockey and ringette, Air Cadets, blood donor clinics, the Terry Fox Run, the Goderich Legion and Poppy Campaign, church groups, the Goderich Lions and Alcoholics Anonymous.

 

James Scongack, Bruce Power’s vice-president of corporate affairs, said the company’s Community Investment and Sponsorship Fund is the perfect way to assist a group in helping others.

 

“We will now happily watch the Goderich and Clinton Kinsmen Clubs duplicate our investment many times over in the coming years through their TV fund-raising efforts,” said Scongack. “This is one of those cases where a relatively small donation can reap rewards for the community for another generation to come.”


 

Local Kinsmen, along with Judith Keightley (left) of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Grey, Bruce, Huron, Perth; Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson; and Mike Austin (right), president of the Goderich Kinsmen Club, accept a $10,000 donation from Erin Grandmaison of Bruce Power; photo courtesy of Bruce Power