10/13/2026
Apparently we have officially reached the āletās build a drive thru for petsā stage of our lives and before anyone gets too excited⦠itās nothing fancy. Weāre literally putting together a little fun drive thru window. The whole idea is just to make it fun, give you and your pets the full drive thru feeling, and hopefully bring our community together to help us stock the Pet Pantry with enough food, litter and supplies to carry us through the winter. ā¤ļø Youāll pull in, follow the pylons, stay in your vehicle and pull right up to our little window to place your petās order. Honestly, the fact that weāre actually building = this makes me laugh every time I think about it. š
But there is actually a reason we decided to make this a drive thru. Itās October in Northern Ontario, which means it could be sunny, raining, snowing, freezing cold or somehow all of the above. You get to stay warm and dry in your car. It also means pets who might not normally be able to enjoy an event can still come along. Bring your senior dog, your shy dog, your barky dog who plans on announcing their arrival before you even reach the pylons, your puppy, your cat⦠heck, bring your lizard or your snake. š We probably donāt have anything exciting on the menu for the reptiles, but they can still pull up to the window and get their free drive thru photo. šø
If your pet has their own Facebook, Instagram or TikTok account (because some of our animals are influencers now! let us know their @ or hashtag and weāll gladly tag them when we share their photo!
And behind all the silliness is a really important reason weāre doing this. ā¤ļø Every dollar raised will be taken right inside Pet Valu Hollinger Court and used to purchase food, litter and other much needed supplies for the Pet Pantry. Our hope is that together, we can stock those shelves enough to help carry the Pantry through the winter months and continue being there when local pets and their families need a little extra help. Youāll also get to see what your support helped us purchase, while those dollars go right back into another locally owned Timmins business.
So no, donāt expect a McDonaldās level drive thru. š Expect smiles, some pylons, a bunch of pets, and a whole lot of community coming together for a really good reason.
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Sunday, October 18 | 12ā3 PM | Pet Valu Hollinger Court | CASH ONLY
And seriously⦠donāt make us build this ridiculous little window and then not come through it. šš¾
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