Tim Hortons cookies raise $60,300 for schools

Members of the Tim Hortons Smile Cookie campaign, from left, Edel Bonao, Harpreet Shergill, Rachael Stankowski, Gurtek Shoker, Gillian Shaw (fund vice-chair) and Maridel Catacutan. Photo by NICK PROCAYLO /PNG

The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund has received a donation of $60,300 from the recent Tim Hortons Smile Cookie campaign. Seven restaurants — four in Surrey, three in Maple Ridge — sold tens of thousands of the $2 cookies, with the proceeds going to the fund’s Adopt-A-School program. The money will be directed to L.A. Matheson secondary […]

Smile, it’s a cookie!

Barh Dhahan and Gurtek Shoker hold a "Smile Cookie" sign at a Tim Hortons location in Surrey.

Seven Tim Hortons locations — four in Surrey, three in Maple Ridge — will dedicate proceeds from the company’s Smile Cookie charity campaign to The Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-A-School program. “We are hoping to raise a significant amount of money for Adopt-A-School,” said Barj Dhahan, who with his business partner, Gurtek Shoker, owns the seven franchises. […]

More than $2M helps students at 133 schools

The final numbers are in for our annual campaign and 133 schools received $2,320,342 in aid from The Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-A-School program to feed and clothe hungry and impoverished students. Since AAS began in 2011, $17.5 million from generous Sun readers has been sent to hundreds of schools across the province. The money has been […]

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