Estevan Comprehensive School (ECS) will be rolling out one of its annual fundraising efforts for another year, with students going door to door, trying to sell some sweet deals to residents of the Energy City. Oct. 5 marks the date ECS will hold its blitz-style sale of discount cards for assorted local businesses.聽
Students have been selling the cards for about a month, but they will be canvassing the city of Estevan, in a deliberate effort to sell them. Students will be travelling to local neighbourhoods in their efforts to sell the cards and promote the many local businesses at which the cards offer discounts.
The one exception to this will be the Westview area, which will be canvassed after Thanksgiving, when the football team has time to cover that part of the city. They will be busy with games and practices up to that point.
Tanis Savill, a teacher at ECS and the advisor and treasurer with the Student Representative Council (SRC), said that the sale of discount cards has been going on for about a decade at the school and serves as a way to gather financial support for school teams and clubs.
鈥淲e used the money to fund all our athletics and clubs, which is a significant amount of money, because we don鈥檛 have that in our budget from the school division anymore,鈥� said Savill. 鈥淚t鈥檚 very important to keep that up, because we have to buy uniforms, pay travel expenses, pay referees and coaches and that kind of thing. Anyone on a team or club that will benefit from these is supposed to come out and help us sell door-to-door that night.鈥�
Discount cards are available for $20 and can be purchased with cash or cheque made payable to Estevan Comprehensive School or the SRC. The cards are made up of smaller segmented portions that can be broken off from the card and used at a number of participating local businesses for discounts. They can be used at a number of businesses, from retail to restaurants, and from large chains to small businesses.聽
Students take out a minimum of two cards to sell, and Savill noted that this year the school has a contest whereby each pair a student sells, gets their name entered into a draw to win an iPhone.
Savill said that although the blitz is in October, the SRC will continue to sell cards into the winter, for whomever is interested.
鈥淣ormally, we sell them up until December, but they鈥檙e good until next September,鈥� said Savill.
