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"Skate with Santa" Provides Early Christmas Gift

YVR Golf For Kids Co-Founder Wayne Duzita (left) with Santa and the Richmond Christmas Fund’s Elizabeth Specht and Ian Chian. YVR Golf For Kids sponsors the Christmas Fund’s annual “Skate with Santa,” which gives children who register with the program a chance to take to the ice alongside Jolly Old Saint Nick. This year’s event, held at Minoru Arenas on December 18, was attended by 140 children, each of whom received a specially made goodie bag at the end.

The Richmond Christmas Fund mobilizes the community’s spirit of giving to make holiday wishes come true for over 2,000 low-income Richmond residents each year. Each person registered with the program receives a grocery voucher and nearly 1,000 children under 15 years old also receive toys or gift cards donated to the program.

Volunteer Richmond Information Services is a non-profit agency dedicated to enhancing the lives of Richmond residents by bringing people and services together through community information and volunteerism.

 
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For more information contact:

Ryan Luetzen
Program Coordinator, Communications
Volunteer Richmond Information Services
604-279-7129 / rluetzen@volunteerrichmond.ca  

Richmond Christmas Fund