{"id":167131,"date":"2023-07-13T16:07:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T20:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=167131"},"modified":"2023-07-14T10:40:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T14:40:57","slug":"shawville-canada-day-flea-market-raises-nearly-7000-for-local-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/shawville-canada-day-flea-market-raises-nearly-7000-for-local-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawville Canada Day flea market raises nearly $7,000 for local classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

The annual Canada Day flea market in Shawville was a resounding success again this year, raising a whopping $6,859.70 for educational supplies at Dr. S.E. McDowell Elementary School. The total haul was just shy of last year's record breaking $7,586.80. The event has been going on for more than a decade, and was spearheaded by husband and wife team Melanie Duchesne and Chris Beimers. The charity event quickly grew to fill the floor of the Shawville arena and has become a staple of the town\u2019s Canada Day celebrations.<\/p>\n

Beimers explained that when they got started they had donated their proceeds to the Pontiac Hospital's dialysis unit project, raising roughly $25,000 over the course of 10 years. When their son entered school, they decided that the funds should be directed towards boosting teachers' classroom budgets.<\/p>\n\n

He said that the money is evenly distributed among the school's teachers and they decide how the money is best spent, putting it towards everything from classroom equipment to special projects.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Clip-Chris-Beimers-what-it-goes-towards.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

The breakdown of the profits are as follow:<\/p>\n

50\/50 draw: $ 851.00<\/div>\n
Online auction: $2,522<\/div>\n
Vendor rentals (31 vendors): $920<\/div>\n
Donations and sales from donated items: $2,566.70<\/div>\n
Total: $6,859.70<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The annual Canada Day flea market in Shawville was a resounding success again this year, raising a whopping $6,859.70 for educational supplies at Dr. S.E. McDowell Elementary School. The total haul was just shy of last year’s record breaking $7,586.80. The event has been going on for more than a decade, and was spearheaded by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":167140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,221],"tags":[8180,28255,28254,17318,28253,24968,9168],"radio":[239],"origine":[274,258,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167143,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167131\/revisions\/167143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167131"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=167131"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=167131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}