South Okanagan Tim Hortons restaurants raise over $4K for residential school survivors through orange donut fundraiser

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South Okanagan Tim Hortons restaurants raised money for residential school survivors.

In early June, locally-owned South Okanagan Tim Hortons restaurants launched an orange donut fundraiser for residential school survivors last week, and the results have blown them away.

From June 4 to 6, $4,049 worth of the donuts were sold around the community, 100 per cent of which will be going to the Every Child Matters movement.

Owner Nicole MacMillan was so inspired, she decided to match it.

"Our family [the Stawarz family] personally decided what better way to show our local First Nations community the support they deserve than to match the donations brought in," MacMillan said.

"So another $4,049 was donated in trust for the survivors."

The money will go to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, which provides a wide range of services to survivors in British Columbia and their family suffering from intergenerational traumas.

MacMillan met with Penticton Indian Band Chief Greg Gabriel at the local memorial of the residential school survivors to pay their respects and present the donation.

"Thank you once again to our community for showing their support," MacMillan said.

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