Fire Fighters For Charity

Today is the deadline for the earlybird draw. To enter this incredible draw purchase your foursome online via the payment option on Golf page. The draw will be held on Wednesday May 2. Good luck to all those that entered.

Next weekend our Calendar guys will be heating up the stage at the Ultimate Women’s Show. This will be our final appearance for a long long time to come as we are putting the breaks on our Hamilton’s Hottest Firefighter Calendar. The show runs Friday May 4th to Sunday May 6th. Our guys will be featured in the daily fashion show, and back at our booth personalizing calendars one last time. We’ve also got a genuine Hamilton Firefighter Helmet for raffle. This helmet has been retired and would look great in your rec room behind the Bar. All the details for the Ultimate Women’s Show are up online at www.ultimatewomensshow.ca.

This year we have an Early Bird for those foursome that have been purchased by April 27th. The lucky foursome will have their entry fees refunded to them. To enter this incredible draw purchase your foursome online via the payment option in on Golf page. This will be a great year for the Charity Golf Classic as we welcome our new beneficiaries Ronald McDonald House Hamilton. Several other awesome draws and prizes have been planned and secured for our Golf Tournament. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to golf Glendale while helping out an incredible cause. See you on the greens May 24th.

Hamilton Professional Firefighters Association Local 288 teams up with Ronald McDonald House Hamilton;

Every year, Ronald McDonald House Hamilton provides a home away from home for hundreds of families of seriously ill children who are receiving treatment at McMaster Children’s Hospital and other local hospitals. Sadly, due to limited space, they’re forced to turn away families in need every day. It breaks our hearts and we’re determined to do something about it. That’s why we’ve chosen to assist Ronald McDonald House Hamilton in expanding the House from 15 to 40 rooms. Please, help the Hamilton Professional Firefighters Assistance Fund make this goal a reality. We have made a $50,000 funding commitment to Ronald McDonald House Hamilton, making them our Charity Golf Classic benefactor for years to come. Our golf tournament brochure can be viewed and downloaded by clicking this link. Several great sponsorship packages are available as are foursomes for the classic, which is Thursday May 24th at Glendale Golf and Country Club. We have an earlybird deadline of April 27th for entry into a draw to have your foursome fee refunded. We look forward to this new partnership and hope to see you out on the greens on the 24th of May. Additional information as well as payment options for sponsorship packages and foursomes can be found on our Golf page.

Hamilton Firefighters broke from their tried and true chili to create one of the events most talked about entrees. Although we were not officially allowed to compete for Soup Supremacy our top notch firehouse cooks concocted a magical medially of chipotle, chicken and corn that kept the crowd buzzing and returning for seconds and thirds. We served notice that we are for real and ready to compete against the many area restaurants that did battle at Soupfest. This day was not just about the soup; there was a goal and that was to raise much needed funds for Living Rock. “Living Rock offers over 20 services, 7 days a week for youth to connect into for personal support regardless of gender, religious beliefs, and ethnicity.” We continue to support Living Rock in their efforts to provide much needed support, stability and guidance to the City’s youth that will one day make up the backbone of our community. For more information about Living Rock please check out their website at www.livingrock.ca .

Taking the lead from last years rousing success this years Charity Ball exceeded all expectations raising over $15,000 for the Hamilton Firefighters Assistance Fund. This years theme was the nutrition and well being of children with donations of $2500 being presented to Franklin Road School Nutrition Program and Living Rock Breakfast Program. Inner City School Breakfast Program was once again a focus of the charity ball with a donation of $5000. Hamilton Professional Firefighters Association President Henry Watson wasn’t finished with the funding as he surprised most in attendance with a $50,000 funding announcement for Ronald McDonald House Hamilton. This money is dedicated to an executive suite in the new Ronald McDonald house being constructed next to McMaster Children’s Hospital. The executive suite is an innovative unit which allows the opportunity for those with out of town relatives and residents with extended families to be close together in times of need. This funding is a commitment over several years as Ronald McDonald House Hamilton has become the main benefactor of our Charity Golf Classic. Funds coming from our golf tournament will go directly toward completing our $50,000 commitment. We would like to thank all of those that were in attendance and of course all of our great sponsors. Pictures will soon be up on the Charity Ball page.

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