Talk about having a tiger by the tail… the striped cat is McNally High School’s mascot and their students and teachers certainly aren’t tame when it comes to fundraising.

Myself and some of the eventIQ team attended McNally’s annual pancake breakfast today. The event is a fundraiser for TWO fantastic charities, the Edmonton Christmas Bureau and Adopt-A-Teen program. McNally students entertained parents and peers with musical performances, local politicians like Linda Duncan and Raj Sherman dished out sausages and pancakes to a long lineup of hungry visitors and the Edmonton Oilers brought along the Octane Girls cheer team to perform. The rest of the roughly 300 family and friends watched and enjoyed the breakfast. Students of course polished off their breakfast in a hurray so they could get to class on time.

This breakfast came on the heels of a fundraiser where McNally students raised $58,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society from a Bike-A-Thon.

Congratulations to the grad class and teachers who organize these amazing charity events. I can’t wait to see how the school’s future events “stack up” against this one!