Family Respite Services

A BIG thanks to our sponsors!The 10th Annual Walk on Erie St. was a huge success.  Raising approximately $18,000, this event has become a major way to help us support families in our program.  This year the weather was fabulous and we sold out for the first time ever.  What a great way to start out the summer. Thanks to our restaurant hosts: Mancuso's, La Contessa,

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Nico's, Mezzo and Pasticcio's.  St. Angela's Hall, along with Carmen's Catering and the Italia Bakery also played a big role in this event.

Guests started out at the hall with appetizers.  There was a silent auction and other prizes as well as a raffle.  Two lucky people each won dinner for two at EACH of the five participating restaurants.  Congratulations Peter Scherer and Lynn Kainz!  Lynn was retiring from her position as Director of the Victim Witness Program that week and was thrilled to start out her retirement with this to look forward to. Guests were divided into five different groups.  Each group then visited three of the five participating restaurants.  Menu items included different kinds of pasta, mussels, shrimp, lamb meatballs, bruschetta, veal piccata, antipasto, rice balls, Italian beef, and more!  Dessert included fruit, cannoli and Italian cookies.

We are so thankful to all the people who donated items for the silent auction and raffle baskets: Bimbi, Bump, Ernie's TV, Kingsville Golf Club, Windsor Symphony, Aleksander Winery, Pelee Days Inn, Koolini's, VIA Rail, C & A Collectibles, Dominion Golf, Dr. Tom Wysman, Diva Flowers by Nahila, Ambassador Golf, Lifestyle Fitness, Joy's Quilts, Joe Comartin M.P., Windsor Spitfires, Strawberries Kitchen Soup, Williams Food, Melise Hill, Erie Shores Golf, Caesars, Tirimisiu Gifts, Esteem Medical Esthetics, Talbot Trail Golf Club, 892 Hair Salon, Little Lords/Little Ladies, Bergeron Gallery, Ruthven Nursery and Provincial Nursery.

Sponsors played a significant role in making the event successful as well.  Our sponsors this year were Hub International, Roth Mosey and Partners, Erie St. BIA, Heritage Tire, Advance Business, Seacliffe Farms, Grossi Plumbing and Heating, Anita Berecz, Chapman,Gordon Gardin- The Personal Injury Group@Ducharme Fox, Bartlet and Richards LLP, Brenda Griffith- Collin Barrow, Kelcom Messaging, Fred Galloway- FJ Galloway and Associates, Graham Setterington, McIntosh, Driedger and Hicks LLP, Assante Capital Management- Michael W. Andrews, Cremasco Cabinets, Kirwin Lawyer Partners, Accurate Plumbing, Joe Meloche Ford, Thrashers Chevrolet, Brian Dube, Monarch Basics and The Sandwich Nook.

We hope you will patronize these businesses, knowing that they support FRS and families who have children with disabilities.

A special thanks to Enzo Mancuso, Mary Dagenais and all of the people who volunteered for the event.

See you next June!