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Wonderful Evening for Bright Lights 2021

By November 12, 2021January 13th, 2022No Comments

Thank you everyone that was a part of 2021 Bright Lights for our Children Youth event down at Riverside Bandshell on Nov 5th!

What an amazing evening! We had 100’s of people attend…200 Bear Wishes were placed on the Wishing Tree and 500 Bear Paw cookies handed out!

To everyone that came out, to a wonderful volunteer team (that included our Big Bear Volunteer Team & TRU Nurses – setting up and helping kids through the hay maze, making balloon animals, handing out Bear Wishes and prizes, making & handing out Bear Paw cookies ), Our Mayor and City Council in helping getting the star on the tree and turning the lights on at the end of the countdown, City of Kamloops (Arborist, Event and Park depts), Kamloops Fire & Rescue, Warner Rentals, Elder Della Fellhauer & Drummers from Secwépemc Child & Family Services, MJ and her team from the Casey Clarke Show MC’ing, playing music and getting everyone dancing, our two Food trucks (Biggz Burger Food Truck and Gyldis Pizza), AAron Krausert (for supplying the hot cocoa & coffee), Wishing Well Parties for bringing Flynn Rider & Rapunzel and Prince with Merida in singing songs from ‘Brave’, our kind farmer friends (Ted & Sue Scott)  for donating all the hay, Rogers Rentals & Kamloops Security…..THANK YOU!