‘It’s a dream come true’: Restauranteurs give back to tri-community with cleanup effort
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A local couple and a group of volunteers showed their appreciation for the tri-community by making the area a cleaner place to live.
Business owners Jamie and Charmaine Charles, who operate Cravings Late Night Food in Air Ronge, were driving around the community earlier this month when they noticed an abundance of garbage around. Wanting to take advantage of Lac La Ronge Regional Management Corporation’s annual spring cleanup days, which end Saturday, they began fundraising to purchase equipment and fuel so they could begin hauling the trash away on a large scale.
“We held bannock auctions,” Jamie Charles said. “We have a speciality blueberry pizza, we call it. People are kind of crazy over it and we used it to our advantage to fundraise.”
With blueberry pizzas selling for as high as $60 compared to the regular price of $12, Charles said it was a creative way to generate the funds needed to complete a thorough cleaning. With Johnny Charles, Steven McKenzie, Greg Nelson and Jimmy Roberts volunteering their time, they were able to move 27 truck-and-trailer loads of garbage to the landfill. Charles the group picked up trash from the yards of Elders, the baseball diamonds, the Lac La Ronge Indian Band graveyard, Bigstone Landing and other public areas.
