Royal LePage Plantation Place brokers and agents sing Give Peace a Chance with Royal LePage CEO Phil Soper playing the part of John Lennon in Montreal.
The Royal LePage Shelter Foundation was the big winner at the Royal LePage National Sales Conference in Montreal, where $145,000 was raised for the charity.
Before the conference began, fundraising was already rolling. Hitched onto the back of a Via train was Louise Sabino’s (Royal LePage Connect Realty, Ajax, Ont.) Party Train to Montreal. The beverages were flowing and the train was alive with music and games. Five per cent of ticket sales were donated to the foundation.
In Montreal, many Royal LePager’s were on a different kind of adventure as they boarded a jet boat to ride on the Lachine rapids. The trip was organized by John Hripko and Josh Nelson of Royal LePage Foothills in Calgary; Ron Pfeifer and Mike Duggleby of Royal LePage Regina and Jason Rumpel of Royal LePage Phil Robertson Realty in Regina, raising an impressive $7,300.
In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held a bed-in for peace in Suite 1742 of the Queen Elizabeth hotel in Montreal. At the conference, Mississauga’s Royal LePage Plantation Place branch raised more than $1,400 with its “Give Plantation a Chance” event in that historic suite. Conference goers were invited to have their photo taken in the suite, re-staged to look as it did during the bed-in. The Plantation Place group and some special guests re-enacted the recording of Give Peace a Chance that took place during the bed-in, with Royal LePage president and CEO Phil Soper acting as John Lennon. Search “Give Peace a Chance Royal LePage” on www.youtube.com.
Reid Greiner, a broker in Mississauga, led a whiskey-tasting for a donation at his Wee Dram for Shelter, while Oakville sales rep Blair Mackey hosted a party in his room, where attendees were asked to guess the number of M&Ms in a bowl for a donation, while they were quickly disappearing.
The Royal LePage Shelter Foundation benefited from a variety of good works at the company’s National Sales Conference in Montreal, including two auctions.
Later in the evening Jai Wadhwani of Royal LePage Meadowtowne in Mississauga mixed and mingled at a downtown bar, asking guests for a donation for shelter, instead of cover charge.
The silent and live auctions raised a combined $80,000 thanks to generous bids of patrons and the auctioneering talents of Kent Browne. Browne and his team at Royal LePage Team Realty and Royal LePage Gale in Ottawa topped the fundraising off with a Promotional In House Awareness Contest and Draw that raised $50,000.
