Event Year: 2023

This year Bruce Telecom donated the old pay phone to Huron Shores Hospice for their installation of their Wind Phone Project located at Geddes Park.

The Wind Phone was a joint project with the Tiverton and District Lions Club, which the Wind Phone was installed in their gazebo. The purpose of the Wind Phone is to give people a space for grieving individuals to connect with their departed loves ones, allowing them to express their thoughts, regrets and love, with their voice carried by the wind.

In 2010, Itaru Sasaki, a Japanese garden designer, set up the first Wind Phone in his Garden as a personal means to grieve the loss of his cousin. He placed an unconnected rotary phone inside an old-fashioned pay phone booth and shared, “Because my thoughts could not be related over a regular phone line, I wanted them to be carried on the wind.” When the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami struck in 2011, causing immense loss and devastation, Sasaki opened up the phone to the public, providing a space for friends and relatives of the victims to find solace in their grief.

This project is available to the community to use for living with their grief and letting the wind carry their voice to their loved ones.

Fill a Purse Campaign

The Kincardine Women’s House Serving Grey and Bruce is an organization which provides women in need a safe, secure and supportive environment free from abuse and sexual violence. They offer counselling for all in-house clients and 24-hour support lines. During their stay at the Women’s House, women and children have the opportunity to access counselling, community agencies, legal aid, housing, social assistance, medical help and other services as requires.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of what services this local community organization offers to women in need, which is why Bruce Telecom decided to show our support for them. This year, we decided to take part of the ‘Fill a Purse’ campaign. This campaign works towards bringing comfort, hope and dignity to women with the gift of purses filled with personal necessities. Luckily here at Bruce Telecom we have amazing staff that is always willing to jump in and help when we need it. We received 18 purses donated by our staff members and we were able to fill them full of shampoo, conditioner, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant and feminine hygiene products. We donated them to the Kincardine Women’s House serving Grey and Bruce and it was amazing to see the smiles on their faces.

You can check out their website for any information.

Women’s House Serving Grey and Bruce Believer’s Sponsor

The Women’s House Serving Grey and Bruce is dedicated to ending violence against women. Through education and research, Women’s House strives to help build a community where all people are respected, safe, and valued. This organization relies on community support to maintain and enhance the level of service that Women’s House is able to provide for the community. Bruce Telecom is a current Believers sponsor for this organization.

We are excited to sponsor an amazing organization that gives back to our community through many programs like providing a shelter, transition and housing support, outreach counselling, child witness services, sexual assault counselling, and second stage housing.

You can view their website for any information you need and more information about the services they provide.

Shoreline Classics MyFM reached out to us this year to be a partner in their Project Poinsettias Campaign which aimed to bring a little festive cheer to those who need it most.

This year Shoreline Classics MyFM and Bruce Telecom worked together to deliver 50 poinsettia plants to various locations in our local communities. These deliveries included retirement homes, nursing homes, local hospitals and hospices. It was amazing to see the smiles and excitement on peoples faces when they received their poinsettias.

Bruce Telecom was grateful to be asked to take part in this campaign. During the holidays it can be a tough time for our healthcare professionals and elderly residents so it was important for us to take part in something that brought some holiday cheer.

Pegasus Riding Association Nurturing Challenged Equestrians is a therapeutic equestrian center dedicated to the growth and development of individuals with intellectual, physical and emotional disabilities through experiences with horses. Located in Port Elgin, Ontario, their specially trained and certified instructors lead participants through riding, grooming, tacking-up and trail-riding experiences designed to enlighten, strengthen and challenge each person.

Horse-back riding has long been recognized as a therapeutic treatment with many physical, cognitive and social benefits. This is why Bruce Telecom sponsors this program yearly. They offer a multitude of different programs with amazing benefits for everyone. We were invited to tour the facilities again this year and meet a bunch of amazing volunteers and the most adorable horses.

This organization is a volunteer-driven, and is always looking to have people join their team! You can check out their website for all information on the programs they offer and any available volunteer opportunities.

Every year, Bruce Telecom is a proud Platinum sponsor of the Southampton Marine Heritage Festival. This three-day annual festival celebrates the rich Marine History in Southampton on the shores of Lake Huron. The event includes Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre tours, a Bike Rally, a Ghost Walk, a Pancake breakfast, Children’s Gold Hunt, and the highlight Cardboard Boat races. There is also a fire fighters fish fry, children’s entertainment, and live music all weekend long! This free family festival is hosted by volunteers from the Marine Heritage Society and Propeller Club of Saugeen Shores.

Bruce Telecom takes part in the Gold Dig contest for the kids. The beach is lined with gold nuggets and they must find as much gold as they can in their time limit. After their competition, each kid gets their gold nuggets weighed, which then based on the weight of gold collected they get an awesome prize along with a certificate signed by Captain Wayne Sparrow!

We are always so excited to join and support this event yearly to support the Southampton community and have some fun while we do it!

You can check out their website for more information on the festival!

This year we sponsored another local event that brought a lot of fun and joy to the community of Paisley Ontario. We were a bronze sponsor for the new Paisley Splash Pad that had their grand opening ceremony on June 23, 2023. We were graciously invited to join the celebrations where there was a lot of community presence, which only showed the need for this amazing project.

Through the hard work of the Paisley Splash Pad committee, sponsors, volunteers and construction crews, they were able to turn this dream into a reality. During the grand opening ceremonies, we were shown the completed splash pad in action and all the kids in attendance were over the moon with excitement. The Paisley Central School Choir even showed up and sang a bunch of songs to commemorate the grand opening.

The Paisley Splash pad is located on the corner of James and Inkerman Street and is open for use during the summer months.