Cyclathon 2024- Join us!

HELLO WESTGATE STUDENTS AND FAMILIES!

We are excited for Cyclathon! Our 49th Cyclathon fundraiser and community connector will take place on Saturday, September 28. This is a great chance for students, parents, siblings, grandparents, alumni, pastors, and friends to join us in a variety of ways: cycle laps on a bike, take a walk, bring a picnic blanket and lawn chairs, eat a hot dog, play a game, and more. We want to encourage you and your family to come out and make this a wonderful celebration of our Westgate community. 

It is also a fundraising event for our school. We want to be a part of your lives and also want to invite the wider community to become supporters in education.

This year we have a special fundraising goal: we want new bleachers in the gym!

Cyclathon is a Westgate Community event. Please invite and welcome extended Family members, Alumni, Pastors & Friends of Westgate to join us. 


Important details to remember:

DATE: Saturday, September 28th

PLACE: Bird’s Hill Park – Group Use Area 1 loop road, North Drive (Map attached). 

TIME: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. Checkpoints and laps are open

To help families and friends find each other, we will also have a few group laps:

10:00 a.m. Grade 6 and 7 Group walk and ride

10:30 a.m. Grade 8 and 9 Group walk and ride

11:00 a.m. Grade 10 – 12 Group walk and ride

11:30 a.m. Alumni Group walk and ride

If Saturday morning surprises us with bleakness, check your email and the website. We will make a call by 7 a.m. at the latest. If there is a postponement, the Rain Date is October 5th.

More information included in the Student Information Letter.


FUNDRAISING for Westgate’s 2024 CYCLATHON

Students can collect donations in support of their fundraising in the following ways:

  1. Cash 
    • Put money in envelope
    • Record donation on the Student Record Sheet 
  1. Cheque
    • Put cheque in envelope
    • Record donation on the Student Record Sheet
  1. e-Transfer
    • Send donations to accounting@westgatemennonite.org
    • Include in the memo line
      1. Donor’s Mailing Address (for tax receipts)
      2. Student’s Name 
      3. Student’s Homeroom (e.g. 7A, 9B, 10C)
    • Ask supporters to let you know their donation amount after the donation has been made, so that you can track your fundraising efforts. 
    • Record donation on the Student Record Sheet
  1. Donating through Canada Helps 
    • Include in the comment
      1. Student’s Name
      2. Student’s Homeroom (e.g. 7A, 9B, 10C)
    • Ask supporters to let you know their donation amount after the donation has been made, so that you can track your fundraising efforts.  Record the donation on the Student Record Sheet

To help with our tracking of grade fundraising totals, please use the link associated with the grade of the student you are supporting:

GRADE 6:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/103716

GRADE 7:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/103993

GRADE 8:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/103994

GRADE 9:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/103995

GRADE 10:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/103996

GRADE 11:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/103997

GRADE 12:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/103998

  • Please note: Westgate Mennonite Collegiate collects the names and addresses of supporters (Donors) in order to issue tax receipts

Our school goal is $60,000