Community News

The Children's Country Fair was held Sunday, June 5 at the former Robert Fleming School Grounds.

A huge crowd of kids with their families enjoyed the sunshine, hay rides, face painting, crafts and jumping on all the inflatable bouncers!

This very successful day was made possible by the help of many wonderful sponsors!

Thank you:

Howling the Night Away

Brandon Business Interiors

Forbidden Flavors on 18th

Canada Moving

Precision Toyota

Advance Auto Body

Smooth Freight

House of Nissan

MarDee Enterprises

Total Eye Care

CIBC

Canexus Chemical

Investor's Group - Al Rosendaal

A huge thank you to Ken Bayes for his always popular hay rides, The fun Reptile Gardens, Dee Dee the clown with her great laughs and tricks and to Nana's Kids Parties R'Us for the wonderful inflatables! Also thanks to the always popular Brandon Shrine Patrol.

Finally, to the many wonderful volunteers who offered their help for the day, a huge thank you!

Your valued contribution to our event enables our foundation to host the fair each year!

Thank you all!

The 18th annual Westman Dreams for Kids McDonald's Classic Golf Tournament

Shilo Country Club was the venue for our annual golf tournament on Friday, July 8, 2011 with 168 golfers hitting the links.

The day was filled with hole contests, a putting green competition as well as lots of stops for food supplied by some of our generous sponsors.

The buffet dinner and auction followed at The Trails West Inn where the Champions were presented with the trophy.

Congratulations to team Ludwig, 2011 Champions!

Jordan Ludwig

Scott Ball

Scott Major

Scott Davidson

PJ Crane

Following the presentation of team prizes the Grand Prize was awarded. All golfers were entered into the draw for the Nascar Weekend at Phoenix International Raceway.

This fabulous prize of 2 tickets to Sunday, Nov. 3 Kobalt Tools 500 Spring Cup Series race was compliments of Rondex Auto Body Supply and DuPont Paint.

Mr. Everett Greenwood of Rondex made the draw; congratulations to

Dan Wharf from Brandon for being the lucky recipient of this exciting prize!

As always, an event of this magnitude could not happen without the generosity and committment of sponsors . We were once again honored to be presented with a cheque from Mr. George Sheard of McDonald's for the proceeds raised for our foundation on McHappy Days.

Mr. Sheard presented Kerry Campebell, President of WDFK with a cheque for

$15, 556.00!

Thank you McDonald's and all your wonderful staff!!

This was the most successful golf tournament to date and we would like to ackowledge all our wonderful dedicated sponsors that made the day such a success!

Thank you all!

Westman Dreams for Kids thanks all the golfers, sponsors and volunteers for making this such a wonderful day for the children in Westman!

See you next year!

Chamber GM Nathan Peto, Chamber President  Chris Griffin, Westman Dreams for Kids President Verna Lenton, Westman Dreams for Kids office administrator Cindy Anderson

On September 24th the Brandon Chamber of Commerce welcomed Arlene Dickinson of Venture Communications and Dragon's Den to Brandon.  Arlene spoke at the chamber luncheon, students at Brandon University and hosted a wonderful meal at Remington's.  Proceeds from the day's events totaled $5,722.00 and  was donated to Westman Dreams for Kids.  The board of directors would like to send a special "THANK YOU" to Arlene Dickinson for spending a day in the Wheat City and to the staff of the Brandon Chamber of Commerce for hosting
the days' events.

"On behalf of the staff at TanFx we would like to thank our clients for making 'TanFx Cares' month a big success!  We were able to raise $531.63 for the Westman Dreams for Kids!"

X-Fest organizers Dean Stewart and Dean Esler present Jeff Thompson, Westman Dreams for Kids Foundation President with a $10,000.00 donation for their participation in X-Fest 2 held on Aug 8th and 9th.  Jeff Thompson is pleased with the outcome.   “This is a great event and continues to improve each year.  We are thankful for the support of Xfest organizers & all the Dreams for Kids volunteers that helped make this happen.  We are very happy to be a part of it.”

Westman Dreams for Kids board of director’s president Jeff Thompson accepts a donation cheque from Ridgefest organizers Frank McGwire and Lyall McDermid.  The music festival, which was held on July 19th, raised $1,200.00 for the children’s charity.   Jeff Thompson is pleased with this year’s outcome, “this is a great event that highlights local talent and at the same time supports a local charity.  This is the second year we’ve received proceeds from this event and we would like to express our sincerest appreciation to all those involved.”

RBC Royal Bank Foundation donated $1,000.00 to Westman Dreams for Kids at the annual McDonald’s Classic Golf Tournament.  Pictured are: RBC Mortgage specialists Merv Pawluk and Diane Hainsworth, Westman Dreams for Kids representative Cindy Anderson, Greg Anderson and Ryan Nestibo of RBC Wealth Management.  Greg Anderson says the group was happy to be a part of this year’s tournament.  “We all felt it was a great event to be a part of.  Westman Dreams for Kids is a great foundation and we’re proud to be able to make this donation”

RBC Royal Bank donated $1000.00 to Westman Dreams for Kids at this years Dreams for Kids Golf Tournament.  Seen here in the picture from Left to right are...Merv Pawluk and Diane Hainsworth - RBC Mortgage Brokers, centre Cindy Anderson - Westman Dreams for Kids, then Greg Anderson and Ryan Nestibo - RBC Wealth Management.

A big swing for kids! Last Wednesday, February 27, 2008, Terry Carels presented a check in the amount of $9,500.00 to th e Westman Dreams for Kids. Proceeds were from the Marty Murray Classic Golf Tournament, which was held at the Melita Golf Course. Pictured are (l-r) Al Rosendaal, Representative for Westman Dreams for Kids, Wayne Higgins and Terry Carels, representatives for the Marty Murray Golf Tournament. PHOTO / SUBMITTED

A Rockin Good Summer for Dreams for Kids

The summer kicked off to a great start with Ridgefest held at Planet Kia.  Thanks to a great turnout, close to $1,000.00 was donated to Westman Dreams for Kids.  A big thank you goes out to all the organizers for your generousity.
	X-Fest rocked Turtle Crossing and Westman Dreams for Kids.  Thanks to our many volunteers for your support over that weekend.  Not only were we able to raise funds for Dreams for Kids, but you also made a dream come true for Chance Flick.  Everyone involved will always remember the joy in Chance’s face as he met Hedley and was then able to introduce them to the crowd.   It was truly a wonderful experience.  Thanks to organizers, Daryl Wolski, Darren Stewart and Dean Esler for your hard work and co-operation.