YORKTON - Yorkton obviously had an appetite for cookies, and for helping raise funds.
Through Tim Horton’s Smile Cookie promotion where proceeds from every Smile Cookie support charities and community groups, the Brayden Ottenbreit Close Cuts for Cancer initiative received $10,759.
The local Smile Cookie program has been raising funds for five years, and Greg Ottenbreit said the 2022 amount is the highest.
“It’s totally incredible,” said Leone Ottenbreit, who added this year they were directly involved helping bake and decorate the hundreds of cookies sold locally.
The amount raised also officially pushed the fundraising effort of the Brayden Ottenbreit Close Cuts for Cancer over $1 million through the 25 years since its inception.
“It is amazing,” said Leone Ottenbreit, adding the amount is thanks to the many partners they have worked with over the years. “. . .We’re so thankful for the community support.”
Mauricio Gomez, owner of Tim Horton’s in Yorkton is one of those partners. He said the cookie sales were a good way of helping the local community.
“It’s a very good opportunity to help the people suffering from cancer,” he said, adding they are “very happy to partner” on an effort that is such a positive one in the community.
The current fundraiser for Close Cuts is the Angels Among Us campaign where people can order angels, nativity scenes and new this year, nativity add-ons: three wise men and/or two sheep, which can all be ordered via Facebook.
