MEDIA ALERT: LCBO Queens Quay BBQ Helps Send Kids with Cancer to Camp

TORONTO, May 29, 2012 /CNW/ -

WHAT:		The LCBO and its beverage alcohol suppliers are presenting their 21^st annual Queens Quay barbecue in support of Camp Oochigeas, a year-round camp for children affected by childhood cancer. This fundraiser is open to the public and all proceeds go to the Camp Oochigeas.
		LCBO President & CEO Bob Peter and Queens Quay store staff will present Camp Oochigeas Chair Andy Redmond and Executive Director Alex Robertson with a cheque for $175,217. This represents donations from suppliers participating in LCBO year-round in-store tastings and anticipated proceeds from this year's barbecue. The LCBO and its suppliers have raised more than $1.2 million for Camp Oochigeas in the last 21 years.
		Fundraising activities include skill-testing games and a silent auction table that includes vacation packages and electronics.
		Located on a private lake outside Rosseau, Ontario, "Camp Ooch", as the kids affectionately call it, offers eight weeks of summer camp for children with cancer. It also provides weekends at camp throughout the fall and winter, day camp programs and year-round programming at The Hospital for Sick Children and Ooch Downtown, its urban camp facility in Toronto. Camp Ooch is the only residential camp in Ontario to provide on-site chemotherapy and blood transfusions.
WHERE:		LCBO Head Office employee parking lot Cooper Street and Queens Quay Boulevard East (two blocks east of Yonge Street immediately east of the LCBO Queens Quay store, next to Loblaws)
WHEN:		Friday, June 1, 2012, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Cheque presentation at 12:45 p.m.

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MEDIA CONTACTS:
Chris Layton, LCBO Media Relations Co-ordinator  
Tel. [phone]; Cell: 416 587-3729   
E-mail: [e-mail]     
Cell: 647 237-2267 

Alex Robertson, Executive Director 
Camp Oochigeas  
Tel: [phone], Ext. 252; 
E-mail: [email protected]