The Estevan Family Resource Center has scheduled its annual comedy night fundraiser for Feb. 24.
“We would love to see a 150 people come out to the event; last year we only had 100 people attend but overall our comedy nights have been very successful,” said Brittany Zahn, who is one of the committee co-chairs for the family centre.
The event will be held at the Beefeater Plaza, starting with cocktails at 6 p.m. and then a pasta buffet supper. The comedy show starts around 8:00 p.m. Those who want to attend are encouraged to get in touch with the family centre.
Jody Peters, who is from Saskatoon, will be the entertainment for the evening. There will also be an silent auction and a 50/50 draw.
“The comedy night is just one of three fundraisers that we do throughout the year, in the summer time we have a gold tournament. This will also be the second year we are doing the family expo in May,” said Zahn.
“Those are the big three fundraising events that we do to raise money and they are normally very successful,” she added.
The vast majority of the funding for the EFRC comes from their fundraising efforts like the comedy night. Moreover, they do receive some grants but that is only if they are deemed to be eligible.
After a break from hosting comedy show fundraisers, the family centre decided to bring them back, thanks to their past success.
“We used to do comedy nights a lot, but we stopped and tried out some different fundraising methods,” said Zahn. “We had Jody last year and he is just hilarious. He has what I think would be Prairie humour and his jokes about cold weather are always entertaining.”
The family services that are provided cover a wide variety of needs. Zhan said that they do everything from learning programming all the way to crisis counselling.
“In the summer we do teen programs and cooking classes. We also do our early learning programming throughout the week and our crisis counselling is also available around the clock,” said Zhan. “We try to generate as much money as we can to keep the centre going because we feel that we provide a great and useful service for the community.”
