WELLINGTON – Sept. 27, 2024 – All people aged 60 years and up from the Evangeline and surrounding areas, including residents of Le Chez-Nous community care centre and Le Bel âge complex, are invited to prepare and submit knitted crafts of all kinds to a 2024 Co-op and Small Business Weeks contest.

Knitters will get a chance to win a number of nice prizes, including a $100 gift card from Wellington Co-op (donated by the Acadian and Francophone Chamber of Commerce of PEI) and some nice prizes from MacDonald Insurance and Investments. At the same time, their knitted crafts will be sold through a silent auction; all revenues will help purchase equipment for the ABCD Playground at Evangeline School in Abram-Village.

Participants are asked to attach a piece of paper with their name, address and phone number to each of their submitted crafts since each one represents a separate entry in the contest. All creations must be brought to the Wellington Co-op Oct. 1-19. They will be sold through a silent auction at the Co-op Oct. 21-25. Anyone interested in buying any of the pieces will be able to make a bid. Any unsold pieces will be donated to the West Prince Caring Cupboard food bank, Tyne Valley Branch.

The contest’s co-op and economic development partners will then make random draws for a variety of beautiful gifts, including the major prizes noted, among the contest entries.

Contest partners include the Acadian and Francophone Chamber of Commerce of PEI the Wellington Co-op, the Provincial Credit Union, MacDonald Insurance & Investments (The Co-operators), the Conseil scolaire-communautaire Évangéline, RDÉE Prince Edward Island and the Wellington Rural Action Centre.

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PHOTO: Crafters-knitters Alvina Bernard (seated, left) and Colette Gallant will again this year participate in the annual Knitting Contest organized as part of Co-op and Small Business Weeks. They’re surrounded by Diane McInnis, representing the committee for the ABCD Playground at Evangeline School (which will receive the revenues from the silent auction sale of the knitted pieces), Chris O’Brien, manager of Wellington Co-op (which is hosting the contest), and main sponsor Raymond J. Arsenault, manager of the Acadian and Francophone Chamber of Contest (which is offering a $100 Co-op gift card as the first prize in the draw among all contest entries). Absent from photo: a representative of contest sponsor MacDonald Insurance and Investments.

 

For details:
Raymond J. Arsenault
Manager
Acadian and Francophone Chamber of Commerce of PEI
raymond@rdeeipe.org
902-960-1285