Sobeys Gravenhurst collected monetary donations at their tills during the last week of May, with all proceeds going to Nelson’s two-and-a-half-year-old son and family.
The community is rallying around the family of 23-year-old Cody Nelson who died on May 21 after the motorcycle he was riding was struck by a vehicle on Eccelstone Drive.
The sixth annual Canoe Mural Project takes place on July 1 at River Mill Park, where seven street graffiti artists will transform the undersides of donated canoes into murals inspired by Tom Thomson’s iconic landscape paintings.
A $20,500 donation from the Dr. William S. Monk Community Health Care Development Fund will help purchase new equipment for the Port Carling Health Hub.
The fifth annual Santa for Seniors program garnered a tremendous amount of community support, with over 90 boxes and bags of gifts donated to 215 seniors living at long-term care homes throughout Muskoka.
After 12 hours on air, Huntsville’s 105.5 Moose FM raised $350,554 for the Huntsville Hospital Foundation (HHF), while Bracebridge’s 99.5 Moose FM raised $116,734 for the South Muskoka Hospital Foundation (SMHF).