
Laurierโs Shinerama team held their annual pie in the face event in the concourse on Oct. 2 from 10am to 4pm to raise money for cystic fibrosis, their first event of the fall semester other than their change drive during orientation week.
The campaign sold one pie for $2 or three pies for $5 to raise money for the organization and buyers could choose to pie a member of their orientation week team or coordinator, with the studentsโ union president Zemar Hakim and vice president of programming and services Twan Dieker also eligible to be pied by participants.
โThis event has been happening for years, the Shinerama team invites the coordinator team, the orientation team as well as the studentsโ union president and some of the vice presidents, so thatโs why Zemar and I were there for an hour,โ said Twan Dieker, vice president of programming and services for the studentsโ union.
Laurier raises over $100,000 ever year for Shinerama, raising the most money per capita as well as being the highest fundraisers out of all post-secondary institutions in 2016.
โI think itโs incredible to be part of a national movement, itโs the largest post-secondary fundraiser in Canada, itโs cool to be a part of that while itโs also deeply rooted in the Laurier community as it started in the Laurier community over 55 years ago, itโs cool that we get to be part of something big but know that itโs such a big part because it started here,โ Dieker said.
When the Shinerama campaign first started at Laurier, the life expectancy of somebody living with cystic fibrosis was just four years, but thanks to fundraising campaigns and advances in research it is now well over 50 years.
โI definitely think there was a lot of excitement from our volunteers who got to pie their coordinators or some of their orientation leaders, I think it was kind of fun for them to come back and connect over that, I saw a lot of smiles and laughs through getting to pie their leaders of committees so that was definitely a big win for us,โ Dieker said.
The Shinerama team also held another event on Sunday, Oct. 6 to continue their fundraising, partnering with A-Team at Laurier as well as the studentsโ union once again to present a country concert at Wilfโs where all proceeds went to Shinerama among other fundraisers.
โOur Moonshine Country Night is turning Wilfโs into a country bar where country artist Manny Blu, heโs putting out his first album so weโll be having him play a set as well as alternating that with a country DJ, weโre working with Murphyโs Law distillery who will be giving out some samples as well as signature drinks with their moonshine products,โ Dieker said.
โItโs a very fun night, but otherwise, weโre doing a bingo on Oct. 22, thereโs going to be fun ways to get involved there as well as popcorn fundraisers and Krispy Kreme fundraisers, all that kind of fun stuff.โ
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