Various South Delta restaurants will once again come together this month to make a fundraising impact to fight Pancreatic cancer.
In the past four years Tsawwassen White Spot, Ladner Dairy Queen, Ladner and Tsawwassen McDonalds and Ladner and Tsawwassen Chopped Leaf have all donated 10 percent of daily sales on their specified day.
In addition, Ladner Dairy Queen makes firefighter cakes in the week leading up to Dairy Queen’s day with 100 per cent of proceeds going to Pancreatic cancer.
Purple paper ribbons are also sold for donation and posted up in the restaurants.
The fundraising event starts with McDonalds on Thursday, Nov. 16, which is World Pancreatic Cancer Day, followed by Ladner DQ on Nov. 17, White Spot on Nov. 18 and the two Chopped Leaf locations on Nov. 19.
The initiative was launched in 2019 in honour of Ladner resident and Delta firefighter Thomas Haydon who lost his battle to Pancreatic Neuroendocrine cancer in 2018 at the age of 36. Last year the City of Delta unveiled a tribute to Haydon inside the Ladner Leisure Centre where he spent much of his life playing and coaching lacrosse, including being the first-ever captain of the Delta Junior “A” Islanders.
