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We are sending a MASSIVE amount of YANA love to Trail Bicycles! 🩵💛🧡💚

The team at Trail have become such incredible supporters of the YANA Ride, and this year their generosity helped us offer a seriously AMAZING Grand Prize… a $2,000 BIKE SHOPPING SPREE! 🤯🚲🎉

Trail was one of two local bike shops that stepped up to help make this prize possible, in cooperation with our Lead Sponsor, Quantum Dental. When our Grand Prize winner, Hudson, got to make his choice, Trail was his quick pick for some new wheels and gear! 🙌

We are SO grateful to have a local business like Trail Bicycles standing behind the YANA Ride. Their support helps us create those BIG, exciting moments for our riders while ultimately making even bigger support for our families possible.

A HUGE thank you to the Comox Valley Curling Centre for choosing YANA as the charity for last seasons Pros vs Joes Bonspiel and for including us in the Battle of the Breweries! 🩵💛🧡💚 What an incredible community you’ve built. The energy, the generosity, and the fun were unmatched.

And a BIG shoutout to Hoyne Brewing Co. for adding even more generosity to the mix by donating $1 from every Hoyne beer sold at the Curling Centre throughout the month of March to YANA! 🍻

The amazing team at Andrew Sheret recently included YANA in their event by running a 50/50 in support of local families and then went above and beyond by making an INCREDIBLE additional donation!!! 🎉

We love seeing local businesses find meaningful ways to weave YANA into what they’re already doing. Andrew Sheret, thank you for choosing YANA and for showing up for local families in such a BIG way. We’re so lucky to have businesses like yours in our community! 🩵💛🧡💚

Can we get a HUGE YANA cheer for the absolutely wonderful Hana & Miya?!

These two set up their very own lemonade stand, worked hard selling some sweet summer sips, and then did something that completely melted our hearts… they chose to donate their earnings to YANA!!! 🥹🍋💛

THIS is community. 

It’s kids learning that they can make a difference. It’s a simple cup of lemonade turning into support for a local family who needs to travel for medical care. It’s kindness, generosity, and BIG hearts showing up in the sweetest possible way. 

Hana & Miya, we hope you know just how special you are!!! Thank you for choosing YANA, for sharing your hard-earned lemonade stand money with YANA families, and for reminding all of us that you are NEVER too little to make a BIG difference. 💛🩵🧡💚

Year after year, this wonderful group comes together to turn their creativity into something that gives back to local families, and we are SO SO SO grateful!

For this year’s annual Market Day fundraiser, the Comox Valley Potters Club filled their tables with an amazing variety of beautiful, handcrafted pottery, all in support of YANA. 🏺✨

To every potter who donated their time, talent, creativity, and pottery to make this fundraiser possible, THANK YOU!!! We look forward to this fundraiser every year, and we feel so lucky to have the Potters Club as a part of our YANA family!

We are SO incredibly grateful to have received a generous charitable grant on behalf of the Joan Stevenson and Brian Clapson Family Fund!

YANA is built on community. On people caring about people. On showing up for local families during some of their hardest days and making sure they know they don’t have to do it alone.

So much gratitude. So much community. So much YANA love.

We are sending a HUGE YANA thank-you to the Comox Valley Makers Market, and especially to the incredible Patty & Michelle, for all the time, energy, and heart they poured into putting on Saturday markets ALL. SUMMER. LONG! 🙌

Week after week, they brought together local makers, shoppers, and community members, and made sure YANA was part of it too!!!!

Through concession proceeds and generous donations collected throughout the summer, the Comox Valley Makers Market raised an INCREDIBLE $1,329.35 for YANA families! 🎉

Today, we have a remarkable story of people showing up for one another, both near and far.

First and foremost, we want to extend a HUGE and heartfelt thank you to the firefighters who have been working tirelessly to protect communities, homes and properties from wildfires across BC. We are especially proud of the members of our local Comox, Courtenay, Oyster River and Errington fire crews who travelled to the Clinton area to lend their skills, strength and support when the Pear Lake and 59 Mile wildfires merged. 🚒🩵💛🧡💚

And from their incredible efforts came another beautiful act of community.

Bolster Enterprises Ltd. had not one but TWO properties, incredibly important to them, protected by these crews. In gratitude, Bolster Enterprises chose to make a generous $500 donation to YANA! 🥹

There is something pretty special about watching one act of care ripple into another: firefighters travelling beyond their own communities to help people in need, a local business experiencing that kindness firsthand, and then choosing to pass it along to families here in the Comox Valley.

To the firefighters, thank you for showing up. 🚒

To Bolster Enterprises, thank you for paying that gratitude forward. 💙

And to every person who continues to prove that community extends far beyond our own backyard, thank you.

This is what looking out for one another looks like. It’s community caring for community, kindness inspiring more kindness, and a beautiful reminder that wherever we may be, You Are Not Alone.