Left to right: Ted Emmett (Piper Creek Optimist Club), Bud Kelly (troubled Monk), Mark Jones (CACAC), NIck Kietaibl and Matt Hamill (Piper Creek Optimist Club).

By James Dunn

Ladies Gala proceeds

Piper Creek Optimist Club, Troubled Monk show support for Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre

Feb 11, 2020 | 3:22 PM

Donations to the Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre (CACAC) keep pouring in.

On Monday, Troubled Monk Brewery donated $1,000 to the centre, while the Piper Creek Optimist Club made a commitment to donate $50,000 over a course of five years.

Bud Kelly of Troubled Monk says it feels great to give back to the community.

“Central Alberta has really supported us since day one, we wanted to return the favour,” he said.

Troubled Monk and the optimists have been a longtime supporter of the child advocacy centre, Troubled Monk will have naming rights on a room in the centre’s new building at RDC once it’s open.

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Mark Jones, CEO for the Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre, says donations like these really go a long way to ensuring the success of the centre.

“We’re trying to get provincial stuff out there and do programs where we can work with teachers, social workers, and nurses in the world of abuse recognizing. These things work out beautifully for us. It’s all about making things better in Central Alberta for kids and families in the world of abuse.”

Jones also says that donations of any kind help to promote awareness.

“The future generations coming up, they’re the ones that are going to help eliminate this abuse through provincial programs. That’s how we’re going to make it a better place for vulnerable kids, cause they don’t have a voice.”

The donation for the CACAC will be mainly used toward child programming, and a smaller portion of it goes towards building maintenance.

The Piper Creek Optimist Club held their 2019 Red Deer Ladies Gala last October, and it was a sold out event with over 200 ladies attending. President Ted Emmett says the organizing committee for the gala took advantage of current partnerships to make it their biggest yet.

“They saw the opportunity with our existing partnership with the advocacy centre to attach their name to it,” he said, “just increased awareness, and fundraising as well. Partnering with Troubled Monk, they were able to take that gala to a new level and really help out the community in a big way.”

You can learn about the services the Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre provides at centralalbertacac.ca, and about Piper Creek Optimist Club at pipercreekoptimist.com