An important fundraiser for 3 local organizations is a week away.

The Mayors Casino Royale event will be held next Saturday at the Canadore College Aviation campus.

Funds will benefit the North Bay Food Bank, the food bank at the college as well as Creative Industries an organization dedicated to the arts.

Organizers are saying they may set a 1 day record for the most money raised at a North Bay fundraising event.

Katharine Strang is the chair of the food bank.

She says this is a major event for them ” it is going to be the biggest fundraiser we will see all year and probably for years to come. It will probably help us with 6,7,8 months of food which is astronomical for us.”
One of the organizers of the event is Mark Deacon.

He says tickets are $125 each and there only about 50 tickets still left from the original 300.

Deacon says a lot of support has come in already “we’ve brought in over $40,000 in cash, $30,000 in auction items and a total of $57,000 in kind support and those numbers don’t include ticket sales.”