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St. Marys council officially proclaims Dec. 3, 2024 as Giving Tuesday
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second place in the category, Firm or Hard - Surface Ripened, Natural or Brushed Rind for their Wildwood and Grand Trunk cheeses, respectively. The artisanal cheese producers also earned the second-place prize for their fontina cheese in the Semi-Soft, Interior Ripened category and the fourthplace prize for Surface Ripened with their homecoming cheese. “We're always excited to win something,”
As they have for the past six years, St. Marys council is once again encouraging the overwhelming generosity of town residents by proclaiming Dec. 3, 2024, as Giving Tuesday. The annual proclamation was requested by St. Marys Giving Tuesday committee chair Julie Docker Johnson at council’s Oct. 22 regular meeting. “Giving Tuesday is the largest one day of giving worldwide,” Johnson said. “Last year, $15 million was raised in 24 hours in this world. In (St. Marys), we did very well as well. Our theme last year was ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbour’ and it really resonated with people easily. Whether it was people’s neighbours, whether it was their business, whether it was their hockey team, whatever it was, they understood that being somebody’s neighbour was about being there, about doing something for somebody whether it was fundraising or collecting things. “So, we decided (the theme) had legs to go for probably three years – this will be our second year. And our theme got a lot of interest from Giving Tuesday Canada, from other Giving Tuesdays worldwide; we let them use it if people don’t know and need an idea. So, we gave Giving Tuesday Canada permission to share Won’t You Be My Neighbour and we shared all of our information with them so they can use everything as a template.” Giving Tuesday was founded in 2012 and brought to Canada in 2013. It is a movement
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Stonetown Cheese wins awards at Royal Agricultural Winter Fair cheese competition EMILY STEWART Independent Reporter
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