We are please to announce that this year we are providing three Richmond Academy graduating students with $500. bursaries.
The selected recipients are:
Jillian Fougere
Kendra Burke
Rebekah Richards
Congratulations to all.
RBCSS board of directors
On behalf of both RBCSS and RB Seniors 50+ Club
All regular and special events have been cancelled.
We will re-access in the fall.
Please Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stay Healthy
Our family, friends and neighbors health is very important to all of us.
Please stay home, keep that physical distance, it is so important.
Stay safe, don’t go out unless it is absolutely necessary and only one shopper per household.
And above all stay healthy, so that when we can, we will celebrate in our community once again.
RBCSS board of directors
A Big Thank You to all who participated and volunteered in the events, without you the Festival would cease to exsit.
Co-chairs: Rose Merrick and Sharon Chilvers
President Anne Sampson adjourned the meeting at: 12:32 pm 2nd by: Sylvia Allan
RBCSS Annual General Minutes – Mar 24/2019
Absent:
Call to order: Rose Merrick called the meeting to order at 6:30 pm
Approval of Agenda: Kathy moved the agenda, 2nd by Glenn, so moved
Approval of the minutes: (AGM 03/27/2018) Sharon moved the agenda, 2nd by Ricky, so moved
Correspondence: none
Next meeting will be: April 24th (4th Wed. Of the month)
Adjournment: President Rose Merrick adjourned the meeting at 7:25pm
Cost is good with offering (donation)
In 2018 River Bourgeois Community Services Society accomplishments:
The Youth Committee saw the installation of their new children’s playground. Thanks to the Municipality of Richmond for the $7500. grant. They also continue in their quest to raise funds towards the splash pad.
The 40th Annual Festival celebrated their “Ruby Jubilee” anniversary. Net income was $11798.95.
Tara Lynne Bursaries were awarded to Jaden Bona and Emily O’Brian.
Chase the Ace and the Cafe’ began in April and is continuing. The Ace was drawn in July, so we started again the following week. The current jackpot is now $4800. plus. The profits from this successful project has enabled RBCSS to pay our day to day operational expenses.
We had several other fundraisers during 2018 including: the Robert Bouchard Concert, Trivia Nights, Cold Plate takeout, and our Winterlude dinner.
Summer Student Grants from the Provincial and Federal Government allowed us to hire Emilee Poaps as our Festival Co-ordinator and Alexander Poaps as our Property Caretaker.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
From the Board of River Bourgeois Community Services Society
As many of you know, we originally purchased our playground equipment before doing the Splash Pad because we received an amazing deal on our equipment. Our playground equipment has a value of about $70,000 and we purchased it for $35,000. We are are happy to report that the playground equipment is now paid off and the plan initially was to install it with volunteers. What we did not realize is that the playground equipment is much more complex to install than we ever thought, and after speaking to many professionals, it is clear that we need to hire a company to install it. The best quote came from Eastern Fencing in Dartmouth at a price of $18,500. plus HST. Because of all the support we have received from everyone, we have enough money to cover this cost, however, it will take all the funds we have raised to date. Nevertheless, it’s amazing to think in this little amount of time we have raised over $50,000! The timeline for the playground is to begin installation in about 4-5 weeks.
This has always been a two stage project and we look forward to seeing the playground complete and beginning our work on the Splash Pad. With that said, the Splash Pad is going to be costly, but a valuable asset to our children and community. Our first quote for the Splash Pad was about $146,000. We are looking into a buildable Splash Pad that may cost us a little bit less. In order to accomplish the this, we are going to need volunteers, so any help anyone can give us would be greatly appreciated. Also, if anyone is interested in putting on a fund-raising event on our behalf, we would be more than grateful.
Heidi LeRoux Chairperson / Youth Development Committee