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Almost 1,400 people got up early on Friday for Moncton’s annual Antler Breakfast, helping raise more than $30,000 for children’s programs supported by the Greater Moncton Progress Club.
“Ticket sales at the counter were way more than we anticipated,” said Robert Sams, club president-elect and chairman of the Antler Breakfast.
Programs supported by the club include Camp Livingston, Sistema NB, Pro-Kids/MyWrap, Special Olympics, The Moncton Hospital pediatric unit, the Jon Bassett Memorial Scholarship, Centre hospitalier universitaire Dr-Georges-L.-Dumont pediatric unit and, new this year, the Atlantic Wellness Centre.
Some of the money will also go the club’s Ways and Means committee, which offers Christmas surprises to families in need.
“Families or people that know of families [can go to] our website [and] fill out [a form] for a family in need,” Sams explained. “[Those applications go] to the committee and they weigh the options and decide what we can do for [the family].”
By 7:30 a.m. on Friday, a line of hungry people wound up the stairs at the Delta Beauséjour, each person wearing the customary red antlers to receive their hot breakfast platter.
Employees from TD Bank and Westjet joined with members of the Men and Women’s Progress Clubs to serve the food and run various draws throughout the breakfast, including one for a $1,000 gift card from Kent. That winner will be drawn on Monday.
Officials from the Moncton Wildcats, clad in special Star Wars-themed Wildcats jerseys, escorted team mascot Wild Willie through the breakfast.
Instructors from the Sistema music program provided the entertainment.
Sistema NB music teacher Daniele Jones performs at the annual Antler Breakfast hosted by The Greater Moncton Progress Club at the Delta Beausejour on Friday. Sistema is one of the benefactors of the breakfast. PHOTO: Tom Bateman/Times & Transcript
