Buy a coffee — send a kid to camp!
Today is camp day — the one day a year when Tim Hortons Store Owners across Canada and the United States donate every penny from coffee sales to the Tim Horton Children’s Foundation.
Last year, more than nine million dollars was raised in total.
That also meant close to fourteen thousand kids between the ages of 9 and 12 — who could not otherwise afford to go — were sent to one of the Foundations’s six camps.
In Port Elgin — the Camp Day Coordinator Nick Graham says his store raised five thousand dollars last year, and this year’s goal is seven.
Graham says there are other ways to make a donation, if you don’t buy a coffee.
For example, funds are also raised at some stores through a ‘Rent-a-Tent’ promotion where customers can personalize paper cut-out tents and post them in-store for a donation.
Graham says they also have things like indoor and outdoor games; silent auctions; face-painting; and drive-thru window washing.
Bayshore Broadcasting will be at Tim Horton’s locations today too, across the region, helping support the cause, by being celebrity employees.