The Trusted Saskatoon Directory team always try to do something for the Saskatoon community, we are committed to helping where we can, but especially at Christmas 

On Dec 21st a Trusted Saskatoon Facebook post revealed our cunning plan in full! 

Trusted Saskatoon fans on Facebook had been enjoying 5 weeks of giveaways to celebrate the new website. & contests to celebrate reaching 7000 FacebookFans- but this the 8th contest and this time they weren’t going to be the winners....

We love a good rhyme .......

The Trusted Saskatoon teams Christmas spirit is strong
We could pick 1 person to benefit, but feel that would be wrong 
So we ask YOU Saskatoon to tell us WHO is in need?
We will select a recipient not based on GREED
A charity, group or family we can gift this year
$700 dollars for them to use or to share.
Please share your thoughts and tell us a reason

Why YOUR nomination should benefit this Christmas season! “

The response was amazing, although some what overwhelming too, as we ONLY had $700 to donate to worthy people or organizations! 

HOW AWESOME IT WAS  to receive 4 additional donations!

 1 from an single mother who wished to remain anon

 3  from Trusted Saskatoon partners of $100 each- thank you to:

• Solange owner of  Invisible Fence Brand of Saskatchewan
• Curtis Haigh- Owner of Precision Financial
• Shayne and Angela - Owners of Perfection Plumbing 

 So,who did we choose and how?

WE AGONIZED over every nomination - but in the end decided to split the $1100 pot 11 ways equally and choose who we thought would benefit most

If we had more, believe us, everyone would have been helped, but we know less than $100/ recipient wouldn’t have made much of an impact! $100 for a family for example  is a turkey and all the trimmings on Xmas day for 6+ people 

The RECIPIENTS for Trusted Saskatoon’s ANNUAL December Christmas eve comfort are : 

‘ organizations’ 

1. Oskāyak High school - $100 donation GC for winter clothes fund for teens - we will be raising more awareness for this after New Year as so needed for this age group!  
2. Saskatoon Interval house - $100 Walmart GC for personal hygiene items, diapers and grooming items left behindin their urgency.
3. Hands on Outreach Saskatoon - $100 Walmart GC - a wonderful grass roots organization in Saskatoon teaching real skills to youth in our city
4. Saskatoon Cancer Clinic’s Playroom - $100 Donation ( TBD)- we have friends with cancer, we know kids with cancer- enough said

‘People’ nominated - we will contact individually and will not disclose full names or details.- just to say they will appreciate the $100 help this Christmas.

1. Rhonda- Sponsored by anon single mom donor - $100 Superstore GC ( we will contact )
2. Tammy - Sponsored by Perfection Plumbing $100 Superstore GC ( we will contact)
3. Gail - sponsored by Curtis $100 Superstore GC ( we will contact)
4. Deb - sponsored by Solange $100 Superstore GC ( we will contact)

‘OTHER'

1. Parkridge Centre - TBD - we want to bring some Christmas into the lives of their residents young and old on Christmas Eve
2. A refugee family from Syria - TBD ( $100 Walmart GC)
3. Homeless men - $10 Timmies Gift Card x 10 men - they DO get forgotten !!

This November we are running a Trusted Saskatoon Facebook contest event to celebrate reaching 7000 Trusted Saskatoon Facebook fans - we have already sent Sara, a Trusted Saskatoon fan & her guest to the recent Kevin Hart show in Saskatoon. It was a fantastic show, and we know she had a super time!!! 

On Monday we launched the 2nd like, share and comment contest for fans of our page , and it was seen by over 34,500 people in and around Saskatoon!

Now we are thrilled to announce our 2nd winner - this lucky fan has won VIP Tickets to the Sold out Steep Panther show in Saskatoon Nov 20th.

We select winners via software - so it is absolutely fair , and we have the video below of the selection!!

The winner has been a long time Trusted saskatoon fan too!! They know for sure that it ALWAYS pays to be a fan of Trusted Saskatoon!

Our next contest and prize will be announced on Monday, please be sure to like the Trusted Saskatoon Facebook page and follow the instructions, as many people didn't qualify to win as they either weren't fans of the page or hadn't liked , commented and shared on the post ! 

Wow time sure flies when you are having fun ! TrustedSaskatoon.com celebrated 4 years on June 1st 2011 as did the Trusted Saskatoon Facebook page. ( read the article here). TrustedSaskatoon.com launched our new look website Nov 4th and with over  220,000 of you already passing through our virtual doors, we are the number 1 most visited online directory by the people of Saskatoon. 

Our team are thrilled to work with and promote so many of the best businesses in Toon town!  Of course if we didn't have the support of our amazing fans we wouldn't be where we are today, so we wanted to thank YOU by having another one of our HUGE contests to celebrate! 

7 for 7000 super Saskatoon give away! 

Over the course of the next 3 weeks we will be giving away 7 prizes, starting with today - when Sara Doerksen won a pair of great tickets to see Kevin Hart in Saskatoon after our first like and share contest winner was announced! 

Our next prize winner will be announced on Thursday, this luck fan will party like a ROCK STAR, they will win 2 VIP tickets to the SOLD OUT STEEL PANTHER Show at O'Briens Event Centre, Saskatoon.  ..then we will give away 5 more prizes next week . Every time we reach 1000 more fans, we will give away the same number of prizes , 8 for 8000, 9 for 9000 and so on ...it really does pay to be a FAN of TrustedSaskatoon.com!  

The Trusted team is SUPER excited to announce that the  Trusted Saskatchewan community rebuild of Janice Braden's house has been completed. Janice and her young daughter have a HOME again ...and a beautiful one at that!

We will be sharing pictures of the finished project soon, but first, we had to have a party to celebrate!

On August 13th, 2015 the Trusted team gathered Janice and as many of the Trusted partners who contributed to the project as possible to Village Guitar and Amp and celebrated this completion of this huge project. Nicola from PickNics Catering ( a Trusted Saskatoon caterer ) provided delicious food and the drinks flowed as we all laughed and chatted about the project. Friendships have been made on this project between the partners across Saskatchewan, and Janice Braden was kind enough to allow us to video her giving testimonials to all the Trusted partners and others that stepped up to help her in her moment of need!    

Please enjoy the video below, and please support these wonderful Trusted partners that really did make this happen. We are so proud to support and promote our partners as they really are all the REAL DEAL!   

Below is a list of the Trusted partners who stepped up, along with their suppliers ( Loraas ( free Loraas bin), RONA ( trims), Roofmart Prairie( all of the shingles!) and Dave at Heated Roofing Systems, Colorado, USA donated a brand new heated roofing system! Plus RONA for trims and lots of other bits of material and Winroc!

Perfection Plumbing - All the plumbing

Kitchen & Bath Classics - new bathroom vanity

JABA Construction- Project Management and numerous jobs!

KTS Custom Cabinets - A NEW CUSTOM KITCHEN

Age Of Electric - ALL the electrics

Sunview Windows & Doors - $250 towards the rebuild

Conexus - donating $250 towards the re-build

Kari Calder- Century 21 - $300 in Home Depot Gift Certs

Hairstyle Inn's - $300 Gift Certificate to HSI

Made In The Shade $700 Gift Certificate for MIS

Adrenaline Roofing - Trusted Regina Partner- a NEW Roof and heated roof system!

Fresh Living - shopping help and design

BOW Home Services - Painting services 

Read The Janice's Build  full story from the beginning -   3 previous articles here

The Trusted teamwork for the public, we do that by finding great local businesses, verifying they are as good as we have heard, and contracting them to uphold the 5 Trusted Guarantees. These 5 Trusted guarantees are the cornerstone of our business and the businesses we partner with, and if something does go wrong we hold the businesses to their obligations....that's what the Trusted Saskatoon businesses sign up for. That's why we promote them and why we believe they are the best businesses in the cities we serve. 

The first time you have heard of this?

Read/watch Part 1 here - see where it all began! 

Part 2 

Read the CBC Story Here  

JANICE'S BUILD- the Trusted Rebuild PART 3 

It's been over 6 months since we first brought you Janice's story, and we are getting to the final stages of this huge renovation here in Saskatoon!  CBC covered the story province-wide in December and it has also been featured in a number of National Publications including Canadian Contractor Magazine! 

Dave Andercheck from JABA Construction and his team have been project-managing the build - this is no mean feat!! Coordinating contractors, multiple companies across Saskatchewan's work schedules, inspectors and a plan to do everything in a logical order! Weather, vacations and material delivery has hampered efforts to get this job finished sooner and in this video you can really see what goes on to get a huge renovation ( estimated materials and labor donated will be $80-$100k) like this completed, and meet some of the amazing Trusted partners who tell us why they have stepped up to the plate!

WE LOVE WHAT WE DO!!!!

We have already had so many wonderful Trusted Saskatoon directory partners offer Janice their help and have gone over and above in both free labour and materials ...  Trusted Regina partner Adrenaline Roofing - a new roof!!  

These partners, along with their suppliers ( Loraas ( free Loraas (bin), RONA (trims ),  Roofmart Prairie( all of the shingles!) and Dave at  Heated Roofing Systems, Colorado, USA donated a brand new heated roofing system! Plus RONA for trims and lots of other bits of material and Winroc! 

1. Perfection Plumbing - All the plumbing
2. Kitchen & Bath Classics - new bathroom vanity
3. JABA Construction- Project Management and numerous jobs!  
4. KTS Custom Cabinets - A NEW CUSTOM KITCHEN
5. Age Of Electric - ALL the electrics
6. Sunview Windows & Doors - $250 towards the rebuild
7. Conexus- donating $250 towards the re-build
8. Kari Calder- Century 21 - $300 in Home Depot Gift Certs
9. Hairstyle Inn's  - $300 Gift Certificate to HSI
10. Made In The Shade Gift Certificate for MIS
11. Adrenaline Roofing - Trusted Regina Partner- a NEW Roof and heated roof system! 
12. Fresh Living - shopping help and design 
13. BOW Home Services - Painting services 
14. Trusted Directories - $1000 of the project 

A message from Janice Braden. " Yes, I have been terribly impressed by everyone who is coming in to work. It's almost like everyone feels a responsibility to prove what good workmanship should be - I hear snips of conversations about doing it right, double and triple checking, making sure things will last for years. Everything that is going in, layer by layer, is solid and of excellent quality and I couldn't be happier or more impressed. And yes, the ridiculous potlight is gone (Arlen from Age Of Electric said none of them was actually hooked to a switch anywhere..oh my!). "