The revitalization of the mining engineering program at Northern College’s Haileybury School of Mines gets a financial boost at a pretty swank affair in Timmins next Friday night, November 20th.
It’s the second time for the Miners Ball. The first was last February, celebrating the Miners and Sons breaking a Guinness record for performing music the farthest underground. It supported bursaries.
Northern’s external relations officer Nicole Gingras says at Miners Ball 2.0, guests can expect all kinds of things.
“We have a really nice evening planned out for them with great food and and entertainment by the Miners and Sons,” she reports. “We’ll have a live music trivia that evening. There’s going to be plenty of networking opportunities, celebrations.”
That’s only part of the fundraising fun. There’s a silent auction and bricks for sale in something called “Strike Gold”.
“Folks will be able to buy a brick for $20 a brick and they have no idea what they’re going to win in the brick. If it’s their luck day, there are all sorts of instant prizes and a grand prize as well.”
No tickets are available. They were all sold to sponsors. Gingras promises subsequent public events to support School of Mines revitalization.
