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Students working together for cats in need
A group of Grade 8 students at Westglen School are putting their best paw forward to help cats in need.
Cookies for Cats, Have a Heart, is a bake sale fundraising effort in support of the Calgary-based MEOW (Make EveryOne Wanted) foundation, which is a rescue shelter for cats.
The fundraiser held its first day on Feb. 7, when students managed to raise $92.51 selling homemade goods in the front lobby of the school during lunch break.
The bake sale was also held on Feb. 8 and will be held again this week on Feb. 14 and Feb. 15, between 12:20 p.m. and 1 p.m. in the school’s front foyer.
There is also a raffle going on for three gift bags, which were donated by AG Foods, Subway, Victoria Flowers, Front Porch Guys, Mugs, Crosstead Construction and Didsbury Veterinary Services. Each basket is worth over $200 and tickets for the raffle are $2.
The bake sale also has a wish list of items for the MEOW foundation that people can donate, such as cat litter, paper towels and new scratching posts.
The fundraiser is being run by a committee of Grade 8 teacher Connie Visser’s students: Raven Youngs, Cassidy Danks, Izabell McAdams, Samantha Wilkinson, Allyson Dunn and Taaliya Arns.
The idea for the fundraiser came up when Visser was telling her students during lunch how she volunteers once a month at MEOW, having been introduced to it through her daughter, who volunteers there as well.
“You see on TV, like on Animal Planet, cats and dogs who need help,” said Dunn. “We wanted to help the situation and make it a little bit better [for the cats].”
“We had some ideas, we were spitting them out,” explained Arns on coming up with the bake sale idea. “We thought about having a marathon but that would have been too much work to organize. Kids and people love pastries and eating though.”
“These girls have done everything,” said Visser, explaining that the idea for the fundraiser bake sale, baked goods, information posters and more were all a student-driven effort. “It’s tremendous, it’s student driven. They’ve done everything, they’ve been phenomenal. They’ve very selflessly participated. These are the girls who are going to make a difference in the world.”
“There are so many strays in Didsbury, it’s so depressing, so it’s nice to know we’re helping a foundation that’s helping these cats,” said Dunn. “They’re making their lives better.”
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