Submitted by The Men’s Breakfast Operating Committee
The Men’s Breakfast, held at the Tobermory Community Centre each month, charges a nominal fee for breakfast. With careful fiscal management, and despite inflationary food costs, we are able to make a small profit on almost every breakfast. As money accumulates, we look for worthy local causes to donate to.
This year, after a more than two-year hiatus, due to Covid, we have jumped back into offering a good breakfast, with interesting guest speakers, with both feet. There is extra money in our account, and we want to share it with our community.
Four organizations have been chosen as recipients of a $500 donation to help with their operations. The Meeting Place has sponsored Sports Night at St. Edmunds Public School since 2015. This year, Carrie Bennett has offered to act as Coordinator, and is raising funds to upgrade volleyball equipment, nets and stands and buy some new balls, birdies, etc. for use by the students. The Men’s Breakfast will help fund this very popular activity.
The Tobermory Health Services Auxiliary is also active again, with a recent celebration of the 10th year anniversary since the completion of the new Health Centre (clinic) in Tobermory. The THSA has attracted some new members, and is focusing on the needs of our entire community, which includes the Lion’s Head hospital. Our donation, with guidance from THSA, will be directed to the Lion’s Head hospital, as our contribution to the purchase of much-needed equipment for patient care.
Sources of Knowledge (SoK) began a citizen science project in 2022 to monitor three Seabins in the Tobermory harbours, with support from Parks Canada, Friends of Bruce District Park, Georgian Bay Forever and the Municipality. The Seabins collect refuse in the water, with monitoring undertaken by citizens, following Great Lakes-wide protocols developed by University of Toronto researchers.
In 2023, one of the Seabins will be relocated to the Lion’s Head marina and integrated into the Bruce Peninsula District School science program (with support from the Bruce Peninsula Environment Group). The Men’s Breakfast contribution will go towards preparing public education and awareness materials. This is an exciting development, and the Men’s Breakfast is pleased to help out.
Finally, the Tobermory Daycare will be finding a new home in St. Edmunds Public School, with funding from the provincial government to renovate the school to accommodate the youngsters and their supervisors. There will be costs associated with the move to the school, and we are pleased to assist them with our donation.
Thank you to all who continue to support the Men’s Breakfast.
Next Men’s Breakfast January 14
We would like to invite more men to join us on January 14th, for the first Breakfast of 2023.
The guest speakers will be Noreen Steinacher and Karla Trudgen from The Meeting Place. They will speak about their program to bring more long term rental housing into the community, through landlord incentives.
Please consider joining us.
