Tuesday, April 13, 2010

FITS Committee Seeks Help

(Left: Scott Turvey addressing town council for help with this year's Canada Day events)

A volunteer committee tasked with organizing Fun in the Sun and Canada Day Celebrations in Fort Frances is seeking some help from the town.

It's asking for ten thousand dollars for the fireworks display.

Committee member Scott Turvey says they can no longer do it by themselves.

"We struggle with a lack a lack of resources, lack of funding, lack of untapped fundraising ideas, lack of members, and a lack of new, fresh ideas and people to make that happen," says Turvey. "We have seriously contemplated folding for at least the last five years, if not more, and 2010 is no exception."

Turvey says much of its revenue in the past has come from fundraising and government grants, but that grant it has receive isn't known until the last minute.