*UPDATE* Saturday December 23rd - FNK annual Christmas fundraiser/charity drive

[Carrie]

ugh, still feeling crappy .. i'll sit here until about 430.

[t-skywalker]

^^^:( hugs you

[Carrie]

OJ is my friend.. and Advil

[t-skywalker]

^^^:(SHITTY, ur hung over that sucks
will you still being going tonight? when is aw you and partied with you and jovi at lotus i was so hung. Gatoraide is the all cure with a few shots at the bar!!! its so close to my place=) , come id love to see you

JAMES i love you hunny xoxoxoxo

[Carrie]

i'll make it out, but no loud noises please.

[t-skywalker]

^^^...ill try to be good=) you know i tend to get loud;)

[nabs]

ON my way.

[thechix0r]

Good to see people out, at least we made a somewhat small difference.

Merry Christmas everyone

[Carrie]

http://www.devilducky.com/media/38524/

[neoh]

success!

karma to all who came out!

[LLaaUUrrYYn]

I didnt get off work soon enough to meet up with you all..but I had collected quite a bit of food and clothing..so I handed it out around the skytrain stations. Definately a good experience anyways =D

Good job everyone!

[Sue Bitch]

Great times and great sucess!

Big thanks to Winston for putting this together, you have a big heart for the picky guys

[justShell]

glad i made it out. can't wait till next time. we should do something sooner than summer

[wishbone]

huzzuh i met Sue Bitch.
That is all.

Time to sleep to sweet sweet Cantonese bickering. LOTUS OMG LOLZ.

[Kraig]

Hope this was a huge success again!!!

[neoh]

it was, where were you?

[MC Hammered]

I do wish to give heartfelt thanks to everyone that came out last night to help with the food and gift bag prep and help walk the streets to hand everything out.

Big thanks to Neoh for the Starbucks hookup again, SPK for providing the location for us to setup in and Bev/Veni for some very 'interesting' clothing donations! :c-tard:

To those of you the once again committed your time to help and didn't make it out or show up... BOO to you! :n:

Every time I hold this event I see different angles of the human soul and this year it was very much a slap in my face to make me wince.

Yes... the people are down and out but around the Union Gospel Mission the men outside were very appreciative of what we were doing, others still held on to their religious beliefs and wouldn't eat meat and we tried to accomodate them... but the closer we got to the staging point the less I felt that there was anything left inside these people we were trying to help.

In fact there were people who were visibly NOT in need to our help at all would come pick through our offerings just to get a free handout and then have the nerve to look me straight in the eye and ask if the food was fresh.

Finally.. the fight over a muffin?!?!? I'm at a loss for words there.

I hope everyone had a bit of fun last night as there were a few laughs to be had and yes... we should do this again soon but that shouldn't prevent you from helping out people in need before my 'Christmas in July' event.

Once again I thank everyone who participated for their support in this event and I'll see all of you again soon.

Regards,

Winston

[Carrie]

I had a lot of fun last night, but there were times that the response back from some people made me think I was wasting my time.

Nothing is good enough I guess.

[wishbone]

Originally Posted by Carrie

I had a lot of fun last night, but there were times that the response back from some people made me think I was wasting my time.

Nothing is good enough I guess.

True, but I found most of the other responses outweighed them. WInston's right though, the closer we got to pigeon park the less appreciative they seemed, and minus THE COFFEE IS CRAP guy, the people where we started seemed the most gracious. :)

[prozac]

^interesting. My mom did something similar in Victoria today, and she had very different reactions.

www.comfort--joy.blogspot.com

She describes it in the second post.