YMCA Gets Donation from Lululemon

Saturday, January 17, 2009 03:30 AM

lululemon and YMCA staff hold the final sales slip

Prince George, B.C.- The Family YMCA of Prince George has been given the proceeds of the last day of sales at the lululemon athletica inc. in Prince George. The company raised $22,844.60 at the company’s farewell party on Thursday, January 15^th 2009 for the YMCA’s Strong Kids Campaign. People came out in huge numbers between 1pm-6pm to take advantage of store deals and to show their support of local youth.

“We want to extend a tremendous thank-you to lululemon, their incredible team and to the people of Prince George for making this event such a fantastic success” expresses Criss Turner, Director of Community Relations for the Family YMCA. “When Katrina Molendyk, the store manager printed the sales for the day and announced the final number, everyone cheered. It was an amazing day for the YMCA and we are excited to put those funds to work for local youth.”

YMCA Strong Kids funds will be used to pay for underprivileged youth to attend YMCA summer camp, subsidize child care costs and fund assisted memberships for families in need. Last year, the YMCA raised over $125,000 for the Strong Kids Campaign, which ensures all children, teens and families can participate in a YMCA program or activity.

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Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on January 17 2009 8:05 AM

lululemon? Is it a game or someone's company? Just curious.

Posted by: lunarguy on January 17 2009 8:49 AM

Wow for all the people who were bashing Lulemon for opening a temporary store here in PG, I think the company just redeemed themselves !

Posted by: gold_rush on January 17 2009 9:39 AM

Nice work Lulu. You make bums look great and help out the community. :)

Posted by: gold_rush on January 17 2009 9:40 AM

Oh ya, just shows how huge of mark up they have on there clothes. :) 100 bucks for a cotton hoodie. Gotta love them. I still buy them...

Posted by: He speaks on January 17 2009 10:53 AM

Lunar guy,

That would be me bashing them. Still them parachuting in a stealing the christmas shopping money from year round business is still pretty shallow.

Sure its nice for them to donate to the Y, but it hurt us a lot more than the 22k they donated.

Posted by: lunarguy on January 17 2009 11:24 AM

People are dedicated to their Lulu stuff. As there was no local store they would either travel to Edmonton or Vancouver to purchase it or other Christmas shopping at the same time. They also would have just ordered it online and had it shipped to PG.

With them opening a store, even temporary, someone benefited from the store rental, local people were employed in the store, even if they brought in a manager from outside of the community we still benefited from that person having to rent a hotel room, etc.

Plus the competition helps tune up some of the local stores where at times they seem to forget I am the one with the money and I am there to purchase something but if your clerks are too busy chatting with each other, ignoring me , or txting on their cell phones it makes me question returning to your store.

Posted by: MrPG on January 17 2009 12:31 PM

"That would be me bashing them. Still them parachuting in a stealing the christmas shopping money from year round business is still pretty shallow."

Stealing? That's a little harsh. No business is entitled to my money, I will go where I want to shop, thanks...

That being said, it's amazing the store did so well, considering it was selling the cast-offs and the stuff that didn't sell from the bigger stores. We're obviously starved for these kinds of retail chains in this town.