April is Autism Awareness Month and every April 2nd isWorld Autism Awareness Day. A friend of mine, Brianne Buckman- Kalechstein, is helping to spread the word with such fierce determination, passion and success that I feel compelled to share her story.
Jon Therriault and his wife from Toronto, Ontario, were thrilled to win the $1,000.00 Loblaw's Gift Card and Playtex Gift Basket! I'm sure they have already spent the gift card, but their now 13-month-old son will enjoy his new plush monkey for years to come.
In total this year, YMC gave away over 230 prizes! Here are the rest of our winners for 2013:
My daughter Lauren is a seventeen-year-old competitive gymnast. When she was in elementary school, I remember one of the moms striking up a conversation with me about the fact that I was allowing my daughter to specialize in one activity. She told me that she was a competitive swimmer when she was a child and thought that her parents made a mistake.
Picture this: A tall, dark-haired woman with bright blue eyes sits at her computer. She is surrounded by neatly piled gift cards for free gas, cash, shopping sprees at your favourite stores, free groceries and even a free trip or two. A refrigerater with a red bow around it stands in a corner of her office. At her feet are: computers, books, clothes, shoes, boots, cameras, gift baskets filled with everything imaginable and much, much more, all packaged, organized and waiting to be shipped out to the lucky winners of these prizes.
Truly Dubourdieu of Oshawa, Ontario was so thrilled and thankful to win a new Figidaire Double Oven from YMC, that she wanted to share her story with all of you.
I recently attended my first ever women's retreat, organized by a group of women who call themselves The Spirituelle Divas. These ladies come together to support and empower one another. Their annual retreat took place at the The Nottawasaga Inn situated in a tranquil setting an hour north of Toronto, Ontario. The weekend consisted of women-led workshops that covered several topics all relating to self-love, as well as lots of yummy food, a bonfire, and nature walks.
YMC, in partnership with Kleenex Brand, has a really awesome contest running that I just have to tell you about. All you need to do to enter is share your story of kindness, and you could win a $1,000.00 prize. And get this! No matter where you live in Canada (excluding Quebec), our very own Erica Ehm will be knocking on the Grand Prize winner's door to present a huge Care Pack and prize valued at $1,000.00!
On my blog, The Life of a Prize Queen, I told you that I was waiting to hear back from our extremely lucky winner of the Secret $10,000 Disney Cruise and Pizza Hut Party Contest. Well, after my second email to our winner, I finally heard from Hayley Malloy of Oshawa, Ontario.
