Meeting the $$$ challenge for animal care

Belleville and area businesses have done it – they’ve topped the West City Honda challenge to match its $100,000 donation to help build the new Animal Care and Community Adoption Centre.

The “It Takes Heart Challenge” has now surpassed its goal of $100,000, with $163,800 being donated by local businesses to help build the new centre, bringing the total raised by businesses to $263,800.

So far, the campaign has raised $4.8 million of the $6 million needed to fund the building of the new Centre.

Local members of the corporate community in the region who contributed to this challenge are:
Best Buy Belleville, Devries Site Services, Free-Flow Petroleum, Hewitt & Sons Masonry, Impacto Protective Products, McDougall Insurance & Financial, Ontario Trust & Wall, Quinte & District Association of Realtors, Royal Bank of Canada, Reid’s Dairy, Taskforce Engineering Inc. and Tasmount Plumbing, Heating & Air.

Member of the It Takes Heart capital campaign Peter Malone commented, “A big thank you to the amazing generosity of Greg Sudds and his team at West City Honda for initiating this Corporate Challenge. The new centre will have a huge impact on the welfare of animals in need within our communities. This wonderful project would not be possible without the leadership and generous support of local businesses.”

Malone also thanked the Belleville Chamber of Commerce for its support in promoting the challenge as part of its Charity Challenge.