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The Festival of Words has launched a new way of fundraising to help support their annual literary event, and this time it’s focusing on cleaning up people’s recycling bins.
Like many other organizations around town, the Festival of Words has partnered with SARCAN to accept donations of recyclables at the local Drop n’ Go as a virtual bottle drive in support of the Festival.
Anyone can donate the monetary proceeds of their recycling to the Festival of Words by using the organization’s phrase, SaskFOW, when they drop off their items.
For those who are unable to make it to SARCAN themselves but would still like to donate their recyclables, Festival board members are also offering pick-up service. People can contact the Festival of Words either by phone at (306) 691-0557 or by email at [email protected] to request someone to stop by and grab their items for donation.
“Obviously, we can't do regular fundraisers as normal, so we thought this would be a great way to get people involved who couldn't necessarily donate money to the Festival this year, but still wanted to contribute in some way,” said operations coordinator Amanda Farnel.
The Festival of Words is just one of many organizations around town that accepts recyclables as a donation, especially with COVID-19 closing SARCAN depots for the last several months.
Choosing to donate recyclables to the Festival is an easy way to avoid the long line-ups at the local SARCAN depot, while simultaneously helping to support future Festival events.
“If you're still worried about going down and social distancing or you don't want to deal with the lines, we can do that for you and it will go towards a good cause,” said Farnel. “Fundraising is one of the ways that we've been able to host the Festival for free this year and continue it online, as well as all the programs we run outside of Festival events too, so it's definitely a good cause.”
