08/28/2026
A HUGE thank you to everyone who helped make our BGC Street Party such a fun and successful evening! 💚🥳
We are so grateful to the people, businesses, organizations, volunteers, youth, and community members who showed up, donated, helped behind the scenes, and joined us to celebrate together.
A special thank yous go to:
🚿🧼Wren Hill & Mya Hill for power washing the Club and helping us get everything looking great!
💪Troi, Jo & David for putting up the bird netting and helping with the behind-the-scenes work.
🎨Our Youth Art Auction donors and bidders: Kate Knuff, Melissa Doucette, Nadine Adam, Debra Gral and Kristy Macgregor. Thank you for supporting our youth and their creativity!
💚Mile High Bounce for providing the activities, dunk tank, and bouncy castle!
🍕Pizza Depot, Wingstop & Bite Burrito for the hidden gift cards.
🍔Cariboo GM for cooking.
🥳Our BGC Youth: Neveah, Meya, Teara, Elsie and Ryder. We are so proud of the way you showed up and helped make the evening special.
💚Knucwentwecw and Hooligans for being part of the celebration, donating and supporting our community.
🥳FreshCo for your generous donation to the Club.
And a special thank you to Denise for all of your support!
We also want to recognize all of the organizations and community partners who came out and spent the evening with us:
Stormforged Studio, Maddawgs, Big Brothers Big Sisters, The Sanctuary, Foundry, CDC, Cariboo Literacy, FireSmart, Search & Rescue, Williams Lake Fire Department, Williams Lake RCMP, Royal Purple, Sparkle Booth, CMHA, Knucwentwecw, Marlene Hink, Mary Forbes, Conservation Society, Oliver, Denisiqi, Indigenous Youth Justice, Interior Health, Lorne Doerksen, Scott Nelson, CRD Library, and the Williams Lake Tribune.
Most importantly, thank you to everyone who attended! It was so wonderful to see our community come together, meet one another, have some fun and celebrate our kids and youth.
We know we may have missed someone, and if we did, please know how much we appreciate you being part of the evening. 😊
This is what community looks like. Thank you, Williams Lake, for showing up for BGC and for our young people. 💚
See you next summer!