Wednesday is Tim Hortons “Camp Day” with 100 per cent of funds from all scorching and iced espresso gross sales donated to Tim Hortons’ basis camps.

They supply life-changing alternatives for underserved youth to assist them attain their full potential. Over 320,000 youth have been supported by growth packages within the basis’s 50-year historical past.

Chris Vicary is the overall supervisor for the Tim Hortons at 2540 Ouellette Avenue in Windsor. Vicary is obsessed with what this fundraising effort means for kids, dad and mom and households.

“Simply by seeing the dad and mom after they come to the shops to drop the youngsters off when the buses come to select them as much as deliver them to camp,” mentioned Vicary. “The thrill, the happiness they’ve of their eyes after they get to see their youngsters depart and get this nice expertise to go to one in all our seven camps… It is superb to see.”

Camp Day was started in 1987 by 58 restaurant house owners in Nova Scotia. The house owners donated 24 hours of gross sales to the Tim Horton youngsters’s camp in Tatamagouche. The initiative expanded nationally to all Tim Hortons eating places in 1991.

Over $12.7 million on Camp Day was raised final yr. A complete of over $250 million has been raised since 1991.