Spira Data to Sponsor Missing Chidren's 2012 Gala

March 1, 2012 - PRLog -- Spira Data will once again sponsor this year’s Missing Children Society of Canada’s annual Candlelight Gala.

The Missing Children Society of Canada (MCSC) is the only non-profit organization in North America that employs an in-house team of former law enforcement and highly trained investigators to actively investigate cases of missing children. The 2012 Candlelight Gala, MCSC’s premier fundraising event of the year, celebrates the work that MCSC and its partners are doing to reunite missing children with their families.

Spira is sponsoring the MCSC March 27th gala’s Heads & Tails Raffle for the second year in a row. The fun-filled raffle has a grand prize of a voucher for two to anywhere West Jet flies. Last year, Spira’s sponsorship raised almost $4000 for the Missing Children Society of Canada.

“MCSC fills a critical gap across our country related to the search for missing children. We are honored to support MCSC in its efforts to generate awareness, work with families through their reunification process and, of course, their passionate determination to find missing children,” says Spira President Darcy Tuer.

“We are also excited to be working with MCSC with their operation ‘CODE Search’ and its focus on facilitating the search for kids through technology as well as corporate commitment from companies committed to giving back to the community.”

Calgary Flames’ alumni Craig Conroy and family are hosting this year’s gala, which is being held at Flames Central, a world-class sports and entertainment venue in downtown Calgary.

The Heads & Tails Raffle works like this: buy into the raffle for $20 (and receive a Spira five-tool utility knife); then all participants stand up and, for each round, they put their hand on their bum (tails) or their head (heads). A coin is tossed and whichever side faces up, those people matching the coin get to remain standing. The raffle rounds continue until only one person is left standing, the grand prize winner.

“Just like the enthusiasm we see at Spira, the Heads & Tails Raffle is fun and energetic, and is a much-anticipated interactive part of our evening,” says Amanda Pick, executive director with MCSC.

“It’s important to us that Spira is involved with MCSC as it literally helps us bring missing children home. It takes a whole community to make this happen, and Spira is a critical part of that.”

Established in 1986, the Missing Children Society of Canada works to reunite missing children with their searching families through professional investigations, public awareness and family support programs.

During the 2010/11 fiscal year, MCSC worked a total caseload of 231 files, closing 141 of them.  MCSC currently receives two to three calls per day from searching families and referring agencies who want to register files for their missing children.

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