Veronica Borg of Borgos’ Sport Shack followed through on her plan to donate half of the proceeds from her sales on June 19 to help victims of the recent Cache Creek flash floods.
The revenue – $864 – was half of what went through the till on Friday during last weekend’s Town-wide garage sale event in 100 Mile House.
Then Borg topped it up to $1,000.
Noting she had contacted the Village of Cache Creek to see if someone could meet with her on Sunday to receive the cheque, Borg says no one got back to her.
“So, we just drove down [on Sunday] anyway and took a look around. We went to the trailer park that had been hit the hardest and we saw an older couple who were kinda cleaning up and we talked to them for a bit.”
There was $125,000 donated for the Cache Creek flood victims, Borg says, adding the couple told her that money hasn’t been released yet.
“So, we gave our donation of $1,000 to this older couple.”
They were the closest to where the slide was and they lost their yard and chain-link fence, she says, adding they said there were a number of trailers that weren’t safe to occupy, including their own.
The couple noted the disaster relief was only going to cover 80 per cent of the value of the homes and it wouldn’t be enough for them to recover their yard to make it safe.
“They said they have to move and that money was going to help them with that move. Both of them were in tears.”
Borg says she didn’t ask their names or take a photograph of them because she didn’t want to “exploit them in that way.”
She wants to “give a big shout out” to the customers who came in on Friday (June 19).
“Without them, we wouldn’t have been able to present anything.”
