A Community Fundraiser: Wolf Island helps Georgetown P.E.I.

A Community Fundraiser- Help a Community- Eat a Lobster / Eat a Lobster-Help a Community

Georgetown, a small Prince Edward Island community has issued an appeal for help, “Help a Community - Eat Lobster / Eat Lobster –Help a Community” and Wolfe Island is perhaps is the first community outside of PEI to respond to that appeal.
Angela Morin, manager of the family owned and operated ‘Island Grill’ on Wolfe Island received the letter issued by the Municipality of Georgetown in partnership with the Dept. of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Rural Development asking for help, from a friend. “ Perhaps because I am interested in “not for profit” organizations, fund raising and have some familiarity with the Maritimes as a founding member of Kingston’s Maritime Festival,” Angela said in a recent interview at The Grill.
“Because of the recession, Georgetown has an oversupply of lobster at low prices and they are looking for communities across the country prepared to order a supply of lobsters for delivery, and then organize their own “East Coast Style” lobster supper fundraisers,” she said. “This struck me as a lovely grass roots approach to asking for help and it peaked my interest as a creative idea for a small community so I made a call and soon thereafter placed an order. Within a few hours an email arrived with the all the details. Then to my surprise, I heard from Georgetown’s Mayor Peter Llewellyn as well as the CBC and Can West Global. “

She went on to say that during the wind turbine plant construction phase many workers had come from PEI to Wolfe Island to work and while here, spent time at The Grill, so the idea of holding a lobster supper, and helping a Prince Edward Island community seemed a good fit for Wolfe Island, one island helping another. “ Now, everything is falling in place to make it happen. But this is not an Island Grill event,” she said.

“It will be a Wolfe Island community happening with volunteers doing the organization and the work with any revenues from ticket sales, door prizes etc. going back into the community. I can see this Lobster Supper to help another community becoming an annual event on Wolfe Island, Morin Concluded.
The ‘Eat a Lobster- Help a Community’ event will be held at Sacred Heart Catholic School (Hwy 95 Wolfe Island) on June 27th.
Tickets now available at the Kingston Marine Museum and on Wolfe Island at the Information Centre, The Summer Store and The Island Grill. $40.00 - Cash payment preferred.

For further information contact:
Angela Morin
Chair: Wolfe Island LobsterFest 2009
613-385-2157
www.WolfIsland.com