UNCLAMIED ITEMS SALE - OCTOBER 30, 2010 - Fantastic Result!
 

It was the sale to beat all sales with $5,045.00 raised in 2 hours!  It's an absolutely amazing result when 90% of the items sold from 25 cents to $5. The line up conitinued around the corner onto Rideau Street until 1:30p.m. with bargain hunters waiting for their moment to scoop up the fantastic deals.

Many thanks to CJOH, CFRA, Metro, CBC Radio, the Sun and TVA and the Ottawa Citizen for their coverage of the sale. And to our awesome reception office team who gave more than 500 sale notices in the weeks prior to the sale.

And to our volunteers for their excellent work during the sale:

Kae (PWC), Julia and Lotte (ADAO) for selling out your umbrellas.

Steve(HH) and  Joanne (Aphasia) for record book sales.

Mike (HH) and Salem (HH) for the great job you did with lunch kit and back pack sales.

Mandy and Ann (OVWSG), Dee(PWC), Karyn (Halifax) and Jennifer (HH) for selling the majority of the adult clothing.

Tamdur (CLC) and Lise (HH) for saying goodbye to the majority of the key tags and coffee cups.

Sabina (Results) for surving the sunglasses section.

Jeff (ELTOC) for your great work in selling the sports stuff.

Kathryn and Stephanie (ELTOC) and Amy(CLC) for selling the kids stuff.

To Sonja (Eco Equitable) for selling so many shoes!

Nicole and Bob (MHI) for the awesome job you did with selling the odds and ends. Welcome new Heartwooders!
Ruby(CCM) for taking on the task of selling all that winter wear stuff.
Way to go Sue(ALSO), Bill (HH), Joanne and Kathy (Hopewell) for surviving the madness of the elctronics/jewellery room. What a crazy, crazy scene in that room!
Angela, Lucas, Sarah and Amanda for the awesome job that you did at the front desk.
And to Beth and Carole for your fantastic back up to the back up work throughout the sale.
And to Lisa and Nancy Mousseau and Paul Hamilton for the inventory preparation prior to the sale . Great job!
Many thanks Dee and Kae for counting the money at the end and to Chris (PWC) for the water for the volunteer team.
 
Good things happen when we work together and $5,045 is a grand outcome for our entire community.
 
Way to go Heartwooders!

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010 - Deloitte leaves its impact on Heartwood House!

Many thanks to the eighteen Deloitte volunteers who gave their time and talents to Heartwood House on Deloitte's Impact Day on Friday September 24th.  The Deloitte team did a variety of tasks including gardening, painting, moving items, washing walls and counting items for the next Unclaimed Items Sale. They did a fantastic job and we are grateful to each volunteer for giving the gift of his/her time.  Many thanks to Stephanie Sirois of Deloitte for her work to lead the Deloitte Team.

UNCLAIMED ITEMS SALE - MAY 1, 2010 -  ANOTHER SUCCESS!

It's a challenge to believe that so much money could be raised in just 1 hour and 50 minutes or that we could raise this much money when the majority of items are sold from 25 cents to $5, but we did it we raised $3,561.75!

 
We received some excellent media support for Heartwood House and the Unclaimed Items Sale with a front page story in the Ottawa Citizen and a TV news story on CJOH that aired several times.  A guitar was one of the items up for sale but thanks to the CJOH story this item was returned to its rightful owner.  The guitar was stolen from the owner's home and ended up on an OCT bus the next day. He never thought to call the lost and found. But as fate would have it, there was his guitar on tv. He called and gave me his sale receipt and and his police report to prove that he was the rightful owner and he was a very happy guy when he learned that the guitar was rightfully his. So not only good news for Heartwood in the monies raised but good news for the man too.

Many thanks to the following Heartwooders for the gift of their time to make the sale a huge success:
 
ADAO - Yorek and Lotte
ALSO- Dennis and Susan
APHASIA - Joanne and Lise
CLC - Kathy, Ryan and Becky
ECOEQUITABLE - Sonia and Katherine
ELTOC - Jane, John, Jeff and his girlfriend
HALIFAX - Steve
HOPEWELL - Joanne and Luyna
HEARTWOOD - Beth, Lisa, Salem, Mike, Michelle, Victoria, Jan, Nancy, Joshua, Brooke and Amanda
LTCRC - Sonia and Frederic
LiveWorkPlay - Ginette, Dominique, Luke, Donna, Amanda, Angela and Sarah
OWVSG -  Ann and Merlin
PWC - Dee and Chris for the water - many thanks!
RESULTS - Sabina
 
Special thanks to Nancy and Lisa Mousseau, Beth Hayward, Paul Hamilton and Carole Brown for all their work in the preparation of the inventory for the sale.
 
The monies raised from this sale offset the operating costs of Heartwood House.  Well done everyone!

APRIL 6, 2010 - Heartwood House makes front page news in the Ottawa Citizen!!

Read the article

JANUARY 28, 2010 - ALSO Celebrates Family Literacy Day

Congratulations to ALSO (Alternative Learning Styles and Outlooks), an adult and family literacy program who celebrated Family Literacy Day with stories, songs and sign language!  Carol Michon from Vanier Community Service Centre joined in the fun to tell a funny story about a pesky germ.  Heartwood House’s own Executive Director, Maureen Moloughney brought her guitar and had everyone doing the hokey pokey!  And Kathy Holmes, a teacher in the Deaf Literacy program at also, told stories through sign. Minister Diane Finley and Scott Murray from ABC Canada, as well as many of the families and students from ALSO participated in this very enjoyable event.  

JANUARY 19, 2010 - City gives thanks - Your Ottawa Region

Read the 'Your Ottawa Region' article on Heartwood House's recent Celebration of People award.