Student dinner-dance raises thousands for local youth with disabilities

Revellers celebrate the success of “A Night on the Nile,” which raised about $3500 for the John McGivney Children’s Centre. From left: Sabrina Botsford, Sarah Hanick and Dan Brown.

In what organizers touted as a great night for a great cause, the Behaviour, Cognition, and Neuroscience Students’ Association raised about $3500 for the John McGivney Children’s Centre on January 27.

“A Night on the Nile” at Windsor’s Fogolar Furlan Club boasted a formal dinner, dance and silent auction. The John McGivney Children’s Centre provides rehabilitative services to the Windsor-Essex community, enriching the lives of children and youth with disabilities and special needs.

The student association’s president, Julia Mockler, said she was pleased to be able to help.

“The John McGivney Children’s Centre does a lot of good for the community of Windsor-Essex County and the BCNSA is hoping to help their cause,” she said. “We are such a small group of students that it’s incredible we were able to accomplish all of this in our first year of trying.”

Organizer Karlaina Osmon extended thanks to the event’s sponsors: the University of Windsor Alumni Association, the Social Science Society and Stantec Consulting.