P.E.I. Citizen Advocacy hosts bingo

CHARLOTTETOWN – There will be a prize bingo in aid of P.E.I. Citizen Advocacy on Tuesday, May 2, at 7 p.m. at Bingo Country on Riverside Drive in Charlottetown. Prizes are valued at over $3,000.

Celebrity caller will be Kerri Wynne MacLeod of Ocean 100.

P.E.I. Citizen Advocacy provides friendship and advocacy to Islanders with intellectual disabilities by matching them on a one-onone basis with a volunteer advocate from the community. Admission, including the package of game cards, costs $20.

Tickets are available at the door or in advance at the Voluntary Resource Centre at 81 Prince St., Charlottetown. For more information call 902-566-3523.

Selling daffodils

Atlantic Superstore locations in Summerside, Charlottetown and Montague will be selling live flowers in support of the charity’s long-standing Daffodil Month fundraising campaign. Until May 4, these Atlantic Superstore locations will sell fresh cut daffodils for $4.99 and potted daffodils for $5.99. For every bunch sold, $2 will be donated to the Canadian Cancer Society. “When you buy Canadian Cancer Society daffodils you will be saving lives and helping people who are living with cancer now and in the future,” says Marlene Mulligan, executive director for the Canadian Cancer Society in P.E.I. “2017 marks 60 years since the first daffodils were sold to support the Canadian Cancer Society. Funds raised have helped increase the cancer survival rate from 25 per cent in the 1940s to over 60 per cent today,” she adds. Last year, thanks to Canadians’ support of Daffodil Month and the Canadian Cancer Society’s other fundraising activities, the charity was able to fund:

$44 million in world-class research to fight all cancers $68 million in programs and services for patients and their families that helped almost 163,000 Canadians and 530 people in P.E.I.