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 .......
“ Saskatoon... Christmas eve is drawing near Part 8 of our give away is becoming clear.
The Trusted Saskatoon teams Christmas spirit is strongWe 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:
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’
- 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!
- Saskatoon Interval house - $100 Walmart GC for personal hygiene items, diapers and grooming items left behindin their urgency.
- Hands on Outreach Saskatoon - $100 Walmart GC - a wonderful grass roots organization in Saskatoon teaching real skills to youth in our city
- 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.
- Rhonda- Sponsored by anon single mom donor - $100 Superstore GC ( we will contact )
- Tammy - Sponsored by Perfection Plumbing $100 Superstore GC ( we will contact)
- Gail - sponsored by Curtis $100 Superstore GC ( we will contact)
- Deb - sponsored by Solange $100 Superstore GC ( we will contact)
‘OTHER'
- Parkridge Centre - TBD - we want to bring some Christmas into the lives of their residents young and old on Christmas Eve
- A refugee family from Syria - TBD ( $100 Walmart GC)
- 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!
Beyond our great contest, it's a really smart thing to do, as you will also have easy access to all our news, helpful tips, videos and advice from the wonderful locally owned and accountable Trusted Saskatoon businesses. Articles for everyone, from all walks of life and covering every interest from road safety trips to the trendiest hair styles.
The Trusted team also supports the
Saskatoon community as much as possible, through donations, time and help with their marketing and spreading the word to our fans about how they can help, be involved and support non profits and groups in the city we LOVE!
Thank you for your continued support Saskatoon!
Why Trusted Saskatoon? It seems that everyone these days in the City of Bridges is so busy with life, family, work and a million other commitments. When a need arises for a product or service and you can’t think who to contact where do you turn? Perhaps the business you select randomly yourself or find in other ways lets you down and does a bad job....living in a rapidly growing City like Saskatoon can present it's challenges ....with new businesses springing up all the time and existing businesses getting busier standards can suffer. Trusted is here to save you time, save you hassle, save you money and do the research for you...all the business on this site are contracted to uphold the 5 TRUSTED GUARANTEES. Trusted is a local and International award winning company run by a local Saskatchewan team who CARE about the community we serve!
Hear from the Trusted Founder Sara Wheelwright along with a user of TrustedSaskatoon.com Janice Braden in this video below.
Choose a Trusted business in Saskatoon..you'll be glad you did!!
