December - Santa Under The Bridge 2023

Welcome to the December issue of Under the Bridge, the official newsletter for Last House on the Block Society and its project Santa Under The Bridge. This issue  is a few days later than usual and that was on purpose. We wanted to wait until we had made the deliveries for our 2023 project. We have made them all except one place that we have already been to and will be returning for a second facility.

We started on Friday December 1st with Supportive Housing for Young Mothers. We gave them knitted baby blankets and knitted dolls. Our friend Sarah helped us get there that day.

Later that same day, two of my great-nieces, Felicia and Delainy, accompanied us to Brunswick Street Mission,

Souls Harbour Rescue Mission

and Stepping Stone

On Saturday December 2nd we were able to enlist our friend Christine to help us with our donations to Aerobics First for their Fit It Forward project,

and to Alcare Place

 On Monday, December 4, we had an unexpected winter storm well we knew about it a few days in advance but we really didn't expect it to be so bad. We made no deliveries that day. We made up for it on Tuesday. in the morning, Board member and knitter, Leona and her husband Gerald took us to Caitlan's Place, a facility of Coverdale Justice Society. This was our third year going there,

Coverdale has a new facility, Honour House, for females and gender diverse individuals experiencing homelessness, addictions, and mental illness aged 18-24. We will be donating to them next week.

Leona and Gerald also brought us to Marguerite Centre

and to Herring Cove Apts, a facility of Shelter Nova Scotia

Tuesday afternoon, Sarah helped us again to make our annual donations to Direction 180,

and also to Laing House

We had three deliveries on Thursday. December 7. Feeding Others Of Dartmouth. Pauline helped us out with that one.

Then, Christine drove us to Bryony House

And, we finished Thursday off with Leona and Gerald taking us to Among Friends Social Club.

On Friday, December 8, one of our knitters (Micheline) took us to 3 places.

Freedom Foundation

John Howard Society

and Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Center

As always, we had a great time! I would like to thank the Board of Directors, all the volunteers, the knitters, the drivers, everyone, We could not have done this without you.

The location of our registered office is

Last House on the Block Society

38 Trentonian Lane

Dartmouth, NS

B2W 0C4

That's the address you would send a cheque or money order to if you wanted to make a donation the old fashioned way.

or you may send an etransfer to lasthouseontheblock@outlook.com

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we have an Instagram feed now with the username of santaunderbridge

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https://lasthouseontheblocksociety.weebly.com/

or just bookmark this blog because Under The Bridge is the official newsletter of Last House on the Block Society.

See you soon.