OPEN WIDE: A gull feeds a youngster last week at French Creek. Our thanks to Alan Cornall for sharing his photo with our readers.

OPEN WIDE: A gull feeds a youngster last week at French Creek. Our thanks to Alan Cornall for sharing his photo with our readers.

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A gull feeds a youngster last week at French Creek. Our thanks to Alan Cornall for sharing his photo with our readers.

OPEN WIDE: A gull feeds a youngster last week at French Creek. Our thanks to Alan Cornall for sharing his photo with our readers.

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Susanna Newton, SOS executive director, holds up the cheque given to SOS for the breakfasts sold during the 2021 Tigh-Na-Mara Toy Drive. Paul Drummond, Tigh-Na-Mara general manager, and Joanne Thompson, director of sales and marketing at Tigh-Na-Mara, stand behind her in the SOS Toy Shop at the SOS Community Services Centre in Parksville. This year the Tigh-Na-Mara Toy Drive collected 1,397 toys, (plus 30 bikes, 25 of them from Tigh-Na-Mara staff), $11,005 in cash and cheques, $3,165 in gift cards and Tigh-Na-Mara donated $2,380 from breakfasts sold, for a grand total of $16,550 to the SOS Caring for Community at Christmas program. See story, Page A37. (Peter McCully photo)
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