The Â鶹ÊÓƵern Plains Co-op’s Carlyle Food Store held a community barbeque July 23 in order to raise funds for the Carlyle Public Library.
The barbeque included a combo of a hotdog or hamburger with chips and a drink for the price of $6. The event, which took place outdoors in front of the co-op, was attended by many people in the community and was able to raise $1,152 for the library.
The chips were provided by Lays, while all the other food was provided by the Co-op store.
Overall, the barbeque was part of the Co-op’s way of giving back to the community through fundraisers. For a while now they have been coming up with ideas of giving back to places within the community. In fact, just recently the Co-op had also done a fundraiser for the Carlyle Fire Department.
Unfortunately, they were unable to do an event due to COVID-19, so they did a day where 10 per cent of the profits would go to the fire department. Overall, Debbie Jack, a manager at the store, explained that the people at Co-op were glad to have this kind of event again, as this was the kind of thing they do well.
“Before we used to have barbeques like this and raise money for benches and took them to like the nursing home, daycare … stuff like that … We usually have really good turnouts, and this is what we do—barbeques, get our staff members involved so we can give back.”
Debbie also explained that they have a list of ideas about organizations and places that they can help out. The plan is to continue having as many barbeques as possible and give back to the community even more—making use of the time they have now without COVID-19 restrictions.
Debbie also added, “If there is anybody that wants [to be involved] …we can either do like 10 per cent day or grocery carry out for tips and stuff like that. We’ll probably see lots more barbeques going on—we’re going to try to get as many in as we can.”
