Jefferson Best, Wee Parties And Beyond’s Grinch, making the book presentation to Cathy Anne Clarke of The Learning Centre. Looking on are: Retail Operations Manager of Deanna Dash’s Toy Shop, Kevin Nascimento, Supervisor with Brydens Retail Inc., Deborah Lynch, and Wee Parties and Beyond’s Elves Rodney Briggs and Matthew Briggs.
By:
Marsha Gittens
The wishes of the young attendees to this year’s ‘Breakfast With Santa’ event were granted yesterday when books were donated to Variety, The Children’s Charity and The Learning Centre.
The book presentation to each organisation was done in front Deanna Dash’s Toy Shop in Sky Mall.
As explained by Director of Wee Parties And Beyond, Kathy-Ann Briggs, whose company organised the children’s event, ‘Breakfast With Santa’ was staged on December 17th. At the event, youngsters expressed a wish to have a book donated on their behalf to either organisation through a letter they wrote to the Grinch.
“Essentially, the Grinch is all about growing your heart three sizes bigger. So they had to write their three good deeds for the year to the Grinch and at the end of the letter, they asked the Grinch to donate a book on their behalf to The Learning Centre and Variety, Children’s Charity who were our guests at our breakfast event on the day.”
She added, “today, now with the culmination of those letters to the Grinch, we got book donations from Deanna Dash’s Toy Shop, Brydens Express [Office Supplies Inc.], One Source Business Solutions and from Pages Bookstore. So those four companies were very good to us and we are very grateful to them for donating these books that we are now able to hand over to Variety, The Children’s Charity and The Learning Centre.”
Briggs stated that this is the second year ‘Breakfast With Santa’ has been held and it is the third themed event for children that her company has staged this year. In September, they held the event, ‘Once Upon A Time’ and in March, they staged, ‘Madhatter’.
At the December 17th event, youngsters not only enjoyed interacting with Santa Claus but they mixed and mingled with characters such as Elsa and Anna in addition to took part in activities like the snow balls toss, reindeer ring toss and ice fishing.(MG)
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