Fire Fighters For Charity

In two weeks time the Hamilton Professional Firefighters Association present their Second Annual Hamilton Firefighters Charity Ball. With the success of last years event this has been added to our annual lineup of charity fundraisers. This years Ball takes place on Saturday February 4th, at Marquis Gardens, and is once again a sell out. Our donations will be directed to breakfast and nutrition programs for Hamilton children. Several cheque presentations will take place and the benefactors include; Inner City School Breakfast Program, Franklin Road School Nutrition Program and Living Rock Breakfast Program. All three of these program provide much needed and sometime unavailable nourishment to Hamilton youth, providing a great nutritional start to the long day ahead. We are proud to partner with these organizations and to be in a position to assist with these incredible programs. Joining us this year as Celebrity MC’s are Corus morning show hosts Ben Mc Vie(Y108), Bill Kelly(CHML) and Shawna Whalen(Y108). Our Charity Ball is slowly turning into a must attend event with many thanks going to our generous sponsors and attendees. Check back after the Ball for a rundown of the event as well as picture of the donations.

Our website has undergone a few changes, we think for the better. We’ve added a page where organizations, charities as well as individuals can apply for assistance from The Hamilton Professional Firefighters Assistance Fund. These requests will be reviewed monthly by our executive board. We’ve also consolidated our about, contact and beneficiary pages into one all encompassing page full of information about our Charity and our Assistance Fund. We hope you find these changes as beneficial to the overall website flow as we do.

We are very proud to say that we have partnered with one of the fastest growing social shopping companies anywhere, Smart Betty.  For those of you who haven’t heard of them, Smart Betty offers amazing deals with discounts of as much as 50-90% off to local, hand picked businesses. Basically once you sign up, each day you will be notified by email of different discounts from local merchants that you will be able to take advantage of – all you do is go online and purchase the voucher for the product or service and then redeem it at your convenience! The benefit to you is obvious – great deals on products and services that you already purchase!

Another benefit is that Smart Betty understands the importance of charitable donations. So, for every dollar you spend purchasing Smart Betty vouchers, Smart Betty will give 10% of their earnings back to our charity.

We are extremely excited about our partnership with Smart Betty, as this is something that we feel will benefit everyone! The more people see this, the better for our organization so please forward this web link http://hpf.smartbetty.com/ to friends, family and co-workers so that they can also enjoy the savings and help us in our fundraising efforts!

We thank you for your efforts in helping us by spreading the word about us and about Smart Betty!

Seriously…………….who grows a better Moustache then Firefighters?????????? The answer is NOBODY. Come put your Stache to the test at our Movember Madness event on Wednesday Movember 30th at the Corktown Pub.  Shawna Whalen, from Y108, will be the official MO Sista hosting this night of Moustache Madness. HPFFA have also partnered with The Corktown Pub to bring you this incredible evening. Live acts will include several of Hamilton’s up and coming new artists such as Adelleda, Weekend Riot Club, as well as Hamilton Firefighter Bands The Keith Sutcliffe Band, The Tom Selleck Five and Evolution.

Help us wrap up Movember in style all while supporting this great cause.

Movember Press Release

Just in time for Christmas our Calendars Guys will be at The Christmas Show all weekend selling the 2012 Hamilton’s Hottest Firefighters Calendar. These make the perfect secret Santa or stocking stuffer gift for that hard to buy for co-worker, friend or relative. This show is a must to make your Christmas shopping easy!  With over 100 exhibitors with unique products and services, as well as seminars for cooking, gift wrapping and decorating, your time will be well spent. For more information on the show’s seminars and demo’s check out www.thechristmasshow.ca for all the details.

WHEN:  November 18, 19 & 20, 2011

WHERE:  The Careport Centre, 270 Longwood Rd S, Hamilton ON

HOURS:  Friday  5pm – 9pm,  Saturday 10am – 6pm,  Sunday 10am – 5pm

Given the theme of this years Mum Show it was only a matter of time before the decision was made to team our hot firefighters with the FIRE Mum Show. “The Hamilton Fall Garden & Chrysanthemum Show is an amazing floral display created by some of Hamilton’s finest Horticulture Staff. The display will be breathtaking, featuring over 200 varieties of Chrysanthemums and over 75,000 blooms!” To top it off several of this years hottest firefighters will be in attendance this Saturday October 22 from 12pm-5pm personalizing your 2012 Hamilton’s Hottest Firefighters Calendar. Come visit the gorgeous mum displays as well as view the tropical greenhouse with many plants, fish, turtles and birds. The MUM Show is held at the Gage Park greenhouse, follow Gage Avenue, south of Main Street East, to Lawrence Road, and enter the park at the Roselawn Lawn Bowling Club. The show runs October 21st to October 30th.

Admission:

Admission is $6.00
Children under 5 are free
5 – 12 years old: $5.00
Seniors – 55 years and over $5.00
Prices include all taxes.

******Whistling Walrus Appearance CANCELLED for Tuesday October 18th******

This week you can catch our Calendar guys making appearances at;

Stonewalls- 339 York Blvd, from 930pm-12am.

The Endzone- 1900 King St. East, from 930pm-12am

Curves Ancaster- 370 Wilson St,  from 11am-1pm

The Hamilton Mum Show-Gage Park Tropical Greenhouses, from 12pm-5pm

Check our Calendar Page for updated appearances by our Hamilton’s Hottest Firefighters. We are still taking bookings so keep checking back for updates. Come check us out next week on Tuesday at the Whistling Walrus 9:30-midnight.

On Saturday August 13th the Hamilton Professional Firefighters Association hosted it’s 3rd annual Firefighters Chili Cook-Off. Large numbers turned out to sample the chili and hear the live music while enjoying their favorite beverage in our massive beer garden. Due to the large numbers we actually ran out of chili by 6pm and must apologize to those that had come late looking for dinner. Next year we’ll be ready for the crowds and have enough on hand so that nobody goes home hungry. This year was our largest field ever with 15 restaurant and 6 fire house teams. In the end their must be a winner and this years Champions are;

Best Judged Chili——-The Augusta House

Peoples Choice Chili——The Ship

Best Booth—–Two Cougar’s and a Café

To kick off the event the Hamilton Professional Firefighters Association welcomed Scott Cannata to Hamilton with a Fire Truck escort to the Chili Cook-Off. Scott is running across Canada to raise money for Cancer Research. The HPFFA President Henry Watson presented Scott with a cheque for $1000 for his cause, while at the Cook-Off Scotts team also raised an additional $895 from the crowd in attendance. More info about Scott’s “The Run To Live” can be found at www.theruntolive.com . Our chili page has been updated with pictures from the Cook-Off. Check back in the spring for info for the 4th Annual Hamilton Firefighters Chili Cook-Off.

We’ve got them hot off the presses!!!!! Click on our Calendar Page to buy them online. This year we’ve brought back a few of your favourites, some new blood and a few blasts from the past. We are in the process of putting together our appearance schedule, we’ll be adding them to the calendar page so check back often to see where you can catch the calendar guys.

We’re back with the chili, the ice cold beer and the rockin’ bands on the main stage for the 3rd Annual Hamilton Firefighters Chili Cook-Off. We are once again pleased to be teaming with the Augusta District Block Party to stage the hottest new festival in the City!! Keep checking back for the updates as to who will be the celebrity judges this year. We’ll once again be closing down Augusta Street serving up the hottest chili Hamilton has to offer and presenting a wide variety of live music to keep your feet tapping all day long. See on the Augusta Mile!!!

The Band line-up info;

Saturday August 13th, 2011
Noon -1am

Hamilton’s favourite street is closing down for a party!

Free Live Music All Day Long…Jazz/Blues, Rock, Retro 80′s and Motown.

Featuring:
Your hosts TOMI SWICK and Kevin MacLean

Daytime Line Up:
Tu Rude
Evolution
Mary McKay, Jesse O’Brien and friends (Blues/Jazz/Soul)
Klass ‘N Hachey
Brooke and Kristin Nicholls
Prime (60′s, 70′s, 80′s)

Late Night Headliners:
Backroom 11 (9 piece Motown Band)
Blind Mule
The Bryan Sorensen Band

Go to our chili page for a link to our brochure if your interested in placing a chili in our competition. You can also checkout www.augustablockparty.ca for updates to the bands, links to the facebook page and other events planned for the day.