MILTON: The Tiger Jeet Singh Foundation’s Miracle on Main initiative and the Halton Regional Police Service’s Toys for Tots campaign jointly collected more than $700,000 in toys and cash during the holiday season.
In addition, $30,000 was donated to various elementary schools in support of initiatives such as mental health, literacy, inclusive classrooms, coding, art workshops, classroom technology, and breakfast programs.
The toys collected were donated to families in need of support within the Region of Halton as well as several community organizations including the local Salvation Army chapters, Halton Women’s Place, SickKids, and McMaster Children’s Hospital.
Since 2009, several millions of dollars in toys and cash has been collected and since 2015, $100,000 has been donated to elementary schools in support of local initiatives.
Tiger Jeet Singh Junior said: “Thank you to all our volunteers, public schools, media partners, dignitaries, sponsors, Maple Leafs Alumni, Hamilton Tiger Cats and the community for your incredible support with helping us reach this milestone!”
“Sickness and poverty do not discriminate, neither should the spirit of giving,” he said.
“This has always been our foundation’s message. Therefore as you can appreciate I’m so humbled in forming this amazing alliance with Halton police, because as a tag team we’ll now be able to share this message with more families than ever before.”
Highlights of this year’s campaign included a Region-wide Cram-a-Cruiser event and the annual Miracle on Main celebration that took place in Milton.
“Halton residents, business partners and community organizations once again showed their generous spirit of giving during the holiday season which had a direct impact on this year’s overall success,” said Halton Police Chief Stephen Tanner. Also present was the Mayor of Milton Gordon Krantz.