This weekend was the 12th Annual Northern Light's Casino Thanksgiving Powwow held at the Art Hauser Centre. The increased hustle and bustle of the city was due to more than just people coming home for Thanksgiving. And he said his uncle would be very proud of his altruistic efforts to help others.Prince Albert was a little busier this weekend. He’d make sure you had stuff and he didn’t care about himself and he was a big inspiration in my life.”īrosseau is hoping to make this a yearly effort. He did without to make sure everybody else had stuff.

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“A lot of this is for my daughter (Madison) and my uncle (Ray),” he said. After losing two close family members recently, he wanted to honour them with another charitable initiative. He estimates that with all the donations, he should be able to help about 200 families this Holiday season.īrosseau’s giving spirit started last spring when he built an entrance stand to raffle off for a local charity. “That’s how I got to do it because I only have so much room.” “I have enough room to keep 20 turkeys at a time and then the other stuff I just have in my backroom,” he said. We do like to give as much as we can.”īrosseau has already handed out 80 of his turkey meal packages, but the requests just keep coming. “We are a very warm family and being a family-owned business for five generations, we know how hard it could be to purchase things nowadays. “As prices go up for families we do like to support the best way we can,” said Danika Poulin, assistant office manager.

Poulin Potatoes donated 40, 10-pound bags of russet potatoes worth more than $300.Īfter JP Brosseau posted that he wanted to provide turkey dinners for about two dozen needy families, he has been overwhelmed with messages from people seeking help. Brosseau estimates about $6,000 has come in, while others have donated food. Happily, some of the messages were also from people wanting to help. “There were just so many people that needed it. Brosseau said he wanted to give 25 needy families each a frozen turkey, a bag of potatoes, a box of stuffing, a bag of carrots, one turnip and a can of cranberry sauce.

After JP Brosseau posted that he wanted to provide turkey dinners for about two dozen needy families, he has been overwhelmed with messages from people seeking help.īrosseau, who is from the Greater Sudbury community of Chelmsford, is working to raise more money to help people who have been contacting him.

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