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FALL RIVER:<\/strong> A young Fall River girl proved that you can never underestimate the power to drive change and generosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace Mimnagh won $500 from the Nourish N.S. Food & Film Challenge for her short film on food and climate change. Well, knowing there was no Lions Christmas Parade this year or school food drives, both of which play an integral part in the yearly program that supports those less fortunate, Grace decided she would donate her money to the non-profit organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it wasn\u2019t just going to be a donation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She issued a challenge to the Fall River and area community to match it. And if the community matched it, The Laker News\u2019 part-owner, and reporter\u2014plus incredibly involved community guru\u2014Pat Healey would have to take a bucket of water over his head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, Grace\u2019s $500 turned into $3,000 for the Lions Christmas Express, resulting in Healey having to take the water bucket, despite all his attempts to Grinch out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video promoting the community challenge can be found by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, on Dec. 23 at the LWF Hall, with a small crowd on hand, and following COVID19 health guidelines, Grace got the chance to dump the bucket of water over Pat\u2019s head cheered on by the small amount of people (mostly other cheque presenters) and those at home watching on the livestream provided by Payzant\u2019s Home Hardware<\/a> and Dagley Media<\/a> on The Laker News FB<\/a> page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before getting to do the dump, Grace spoke to Pat on the livestream<\/a> about why she did the challenge and her thoughts of tripling her donation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI feel really great,\u201d said Grace, an Ash Lee Jefferson Elementary School student. \u201cI never knew I could raise this much money.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said she felt bad that the Lions Christmas Express couldn\u2019t collect food for those in need in her community, so that made her want to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause the Lions Christmas Express couldn\u2019t do their parade and collect food, and I wanted to help families have a healthy Christmas dinner,\u201d said Grace, nine-years-old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Pat went to get changed to have the water bucket dumped on him, a few cheque presentations were made to the Lions Christmas Express.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It included Grace presenting Lions Christmas Express representatives Stephanie Dube, Jen Reed, and Paula Beck-MacKenzie with the $500 cheque from Nourish N.S. Cheques from Payzant\u2019s Home Hardware and Links of Love\/Sarah MacDonald-Miles were also given to the Lions Christmas Express.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After that, it was time that Grace had been waiting for. To dump a bucket of water over Pat Healey\u2019s head, as her younger sister said so cute-like in the video challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With some help from her brother, Grace lifted the bucket shoulder height and they both dumped the cold water on Pat. He immediately felt it, combined with the -6-wind chill that it was outside the Hall, located at 843 Fall River Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pat quickly exclaimed \u201cwhere\u2019s my towel. WHERE\u2019S MY TOWEL\u201d As he sought to dry off and warm up. After getting the towel wrapped around him by Grace\u2019s mom, who had a face mask on, he waddled like a duck inside the LWF Hall where a change of dry clothes awaited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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