Advocis Edmonton: Annual Holiday Luncheon in Support of Adopt-A-Teen
This year’s keynote speaker is Graham Hicks, founder of the Adopt-A-Teen Campaign, in support of our charity efforts.
Date and time
Location
The Derrick Golf and Winter Club
3500 119 Street Northwest Edmonton, AB T6J 5P5 CanadaRefund Policy
About this event
- Event lasts 3 hours
Advocis Edmonton: Annual Holiday Luncheon in Support of Adopt-A-Teen
We are so excited to announce our Annual Holiday Luncheon in Support of Adopt-A-Teen. This year there is no better person to be our keynote speaker than; Graham Hicks, founder of Adopt-A-Teen. This Holiday luncheon is our BIGGEST event of the year & a great opportunity to connect, celebrate & have fun with your fellow advisors.
- December 2, 2024
- 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
- Derrick Golf & Winter Club- 3500 119 Street NW, Edmonton, AB T6J 5P5
Ticket Details:
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- As a benefit of membership, Advocis Members attend this event at a discounted rate and you may bring up to 4 guests with you!
🎟️| Member (+ up to 3 guests): $99 (+ GST & ticketing fees)
🎟️| Non-Member: $120 (+GST & ticketing fees)
🎟️| Full Table (10 seats): $920 (+ GST & ticketing fees)
🎟️| Half Table (5 seats): $460 (+ GST & ticketing fees)
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- Limited tickets are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please purchase by November 28, 2024, at 11:30 P.M. MST.
Additional Event Details
We will have our silent & live auction again with 100% of money raised going to The Christmas Bureau & The Adopt-A-Teen Campaign. If you are able to donate any items please contact us at edmonton@advocischapter.ca
Presenter:
Graham Hicks
Now fully retired, Graham Hicks had a 30-year journalism career with the Edmonton Sun, from 1981 to 2020. He was best known for his five-times-a-week column Hicks on Six, and continues to be amazed that he was actually paid to think, talk and dream about this city we live in.
In the community, Graham was the founder and spokesman for the annual Edmonton Sun “Adopt-A-Teen” Christmas project, providing Christmas gifts for over 8,000 teens from low-income Edmonton families.
He founded and organized the Edmonton Sun's annual ATCO/Edmonton Sun Christmas Charity Auction, last held in 2018. Over some 10 years, the auction raised about $2 million for four charities - United Way, Catholic Social Services, the Stollery Children's Hospital and the Christmas Bureau.
In 2003 Hicks chaired the $2 million Catholic Social Services “Sign of Hope” Campaign. Now in his mid-70s, he continues to volunteer with the social agency and currently sits on its board of directors.Graham has received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for community service, Sun Media’s J.D. Creighton Award for lifetime achievement, the Grant MacEwan College’s Distinguished Citizen Award and The Rotary Club of Edmonton 2008 Integrity Award. As part of his retirement send-off, Edmonton's then-Mayor Steve Mandel declared November 8, 2010 to be "Graham Hicks Day" in Alberta's capital city.Since retirement, he has co-authored three books, including "Our Neighbour's Keeper" a biography of Catholic Social Services founder Father Bill Irwin, "Home By Dark" - Peter Koziol's stories of growing up in East Edmonton in the '70s, and a soon-to-be-published investment guide, "Understanding Risk," with retired financial adviser and good friend Ron Hiebert.When the spirit moves, he still occasionally writes commentary in his own HicksBiz.com blog, but mostly he keeps busy helping his wife of 37 years, Maria, baby-sit and entertain five pre-school grandchildren ranging in age from five to two months.