The Big Neal family Bottle Drive in the Palmer Tansley community with support from the Burlington Dads and Burlington Together just completed this weekend. Julie & James Neal joined us today along with their son Emmett and friends, Jamie Kozub from the Burlington Dads and TJ Tobin.

Wow Burlington you ROCK! They started this bottle drive 4 weekends ago and after the first weekend, they had raised $733. Soon afterwards they began sharing the event on social media, going door to door in the neighbourhood with flyers and then some friends started to help out. Barra Fion and Gator Teds then lent their cube van to the bottle drive when they realized the team were going back n forth so often with their empties. Julie posted results to date and then The Burlington Post and YourTV helped out with some promotion. They ended up with $4,000 in the last weekend adding to a grand total of 2,070 lbs of food along with $8,015 from bottle returns/donations.

In Julie’s words, this event brought a full community together for a great cause! In times like these, it was so nice to meet so many wonderful members of our community. We’ve gained new friends. Had support from local businesses and couldn’t have done it WITHOUT YOU!! As always thank you to our village!