Compassion and Kindness Celebrates Olivia Day 2024

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October 23 is Olivia’s birthday 🥳. If you knew her, you know her birthday wasn’t just a day – it was an event 🎉

To honour her birthday we hold our annual Compassion and Kindness Celebrates Olivia Day. This year she would celebrate 28 years so let’s make it a great one!

Wherever you are in the world you can participate by performing random acts of kindness and compassion in your community.

Watch our Facebook page for the event. Feel free to share your ideas on what you will do – be it a small gesture or a big one – we would love to hear from you 😊 you never know, your idea may inspire someone else and someone else and someone else…

Upcoming event

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Olivia’s Trust is going to host an online auction in November.

We will be accepting new and gently used items for the next month, so if you have an item or gift certificate you think would be suitable, please consider us.

Items can be dropped off at 23 Venture Crescent in Elmsdale or 16 Brigadoon Avenue in Dartmouth or by reaching out to dale@livstrust.com to arrange a pick up.

We are excited to host this new fundraising adventure and look forward to keeping everyone updated on start times and how to participate – so make sure to stay tuned 😊

2024 Scholarship Announcement 🎓

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Please help us congratulate the 2024 Olivia Jollota Memorial Trust Scholarship recipients:

Rihana Hamilton

Rylee Wallace

Faith Whitehead

Faith, Rylee and Rihana submitted essays that prove they make their schools and communities a better place through their volunteer work and dedication to make their environments more inclusive and accepting. Their compassion and kindness is obvious in their words and actions. They also took the time to learn about Olivia, which means the world to us.

We truly hope your scholarship helps you on the next step of your journey as you complete your studies. We wish you all the success in your future endeavours.

Thank you for what you have already done and no doubt will continue to do. We hope you take your lessons with you and share them with others.

2024 Annual Bowling Tournament and Silent Auction Extravaganza 🎳

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Dust off your balls and go to the ATM as we get ready for an action packed night of bowling, shopping, food and fun when teams of bowlers go head-to-head for bragging rights at our fundraising extravaganza!

When: Saturday, May 25, 2024 Where: Woodside Bowlarama Time: 7 pm bowling begins Cost: $25 per person (includes shoe rental) 5 per team

Bowling not your thing? That’s okay, come out for the fun of our silent auction, bake and plant sale, 50/50, sale of Olivia’s Signature Tree items and draw for our anticipated beer/wine/cider/spirit board 😊

Contact us to book your team of 5 for the tournament (lanes are limited and go quickly). Remember to bring your wallets and your sense of fun as we do all the things Olivia loved to do.

This annual fundraiser for the Olivia Jollota Memorial Trust enables us continue our mission of helping Olivia do “great things!”

SAVE THE DATE 📆

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It’s confirmed!!! Our annual bowling tournament and silent auction fundraiser will be held on the evening of Saturday, May 25 at the Woodside Bowlarama.

Lanes are limited, so if you would like to participate in the bowling portion please reach out to dale@livstrust.com or via messenger. You don’t need to bowl to participate in the silent auction – you just need to bring your wallet 😉

NOTE: We are now accepting donations of new or like-new items for the auction. If you like to bake, we would love a commitment to supply some items for the bake table too.

A Facebook event with more details will be created closer to the event so make sure you are following the Olivia Jollota Memorial Trust like page 😊

💥 Happy New Year 💥

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Thank you to everyone who has made 2023 so memorable. We truly appreciate the kindness, encouragement and support we receive from our family, friends and supporters.

We wish you joy, happiness, health and peace in the New Year!

We look forward to continuing our mission of helping Olivia do “great things” in 2024 as we continue to help animals, our youth and those less fortunate in 2024 💥

Holiday shopping? We’ve got you covered 🎄

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Are you one of the organized folks that has all your Christmas shopping done and wrapped under the tree? Or one who hasn’t started? Maybe you have just few items left to grab for stocking stuffers?

We’ve got you covered! Olivia’s Signature Tree items are great gift ideas. We have hoodies, tees, pop sockets, ornaments, coffee mugs, wine glasses and all things in between.

We can’t think of a better way to get your shopping completed while you support a fantastic local non-profit. Help us continue our mission to help Olivia do “great things!” by considering one of Olivia’s Signature Tree items for your loved one 🎄

(Contact dale@livstrust.com for availability of hoodies, tanks and tees)

Hoodies = $40.00
Tees-$20 / Mugs-$8 each or 2 for $15 / Wine Glasses-$10 / Water bottle-$10 / Ornament-$10
Water Bottle $10.00
Tees $20.00
PopSockets $15.00
Ash Coaster = $5.00 each
Long Sleeve T-shirt = $25.00
Flowy Racer Back Tank Top = $20.00

Back-to-school Supplies ✏️📚

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As some of you know, Olivia loved school and especially loved shopping for schools supplies. Since we know how difficult this time of year can be for families who are already stretched thin with the rising costs of every day life, we can think of no better way than to help those families by donating supplies to take some of that burden from them.

Olivia’s Trust is thrilled to once again donate back-to-school supplies! We have been doing this every year since we began and this time we have donated $725 worth of supplies for all age levels and grades (special thank you to our supporters who donated specifically for this endeavour) 🙂

We want to wish all the kids heading back to school in the next few days a wonderful year of learning, enrichment and of course, fun 🙂

Smudge helped of course! (cat hairs have been sprinkled in for good luck 🍀)

SCHOOL SUPPLIES NEEDED

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The most wonderful time of the year is here as kids are heading back to school in a few weeks. However, for many families this is a very stressful and expensive time of year as well.

With the cost of every day life seemingly rising by the minute, we know the added stress of getting all the necessary back to school items may be out of reach. That’s where we aim to help out 🙂

If you are shopping and can afford to grab an item or two, please do so. Your simple act of kindness will benefit a student going back to school in September and possibly ease the burden on some families in your community.

The Olivia Jollota Memorial Trust, with the support of Tim Halman, MLA Dartmouth East will be a accepting donations at the Dartmouth East Constituency office at 73 Tacoma Drive (Suite 204). We can also accept donations at Jym Line Glassware Ltd. located at 23 Venture Crescent in Elmsdale or you can reach out to Dale via email (dale@livstrust.com) to make alternate arrangements.

Any donation is welcome and needed. If you cannot get out to purchase school supplies, consider a donation to Olivia’s Trust and let us do the shopping for you.

Let’s make this year amazing for our students 😊

2023 Scholarship Recipients 🎓

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The Olivia Jollota Memorial Trust would like to formally announce the recipients of Olivia’s Scholarship!

Congratulations to Caelan DeViller, a student at Drumlin Heights Consolidated School. Caelan is planning to attend university to study sciences in pursuit of a career as an Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist.

Congratulations to Jacqueline Steele, a student at Hants East Rural High , Jacqueline plans to attend university to study a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Climate and Environment.

Thank you both for the exceptional volunteer work in your communities to make them a more inclusive and safe place for all. We appreciate you taking the time to learn about Olivia and understanding why this scholarship exists.

We truly hope these scholarships help you achieve your goals! Best of luck in the future – you’ve earned it 🙂