A whiskey model co-founded by actor Kiefer Sutherland says it has raised greater than $100,000 for aid efforts associated to the continued Nova Scotia wildfires.
Sutherland first got here to the Maritimes final week to advertise the Pink Financial institution model, posing for photographs with followers and signing whiskey bottles in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
He then introduced on Friday his focus in Nova Scotia was shifting to elevating funds for the Canadian Pink Cross.
“We have been going to cancel all of our conferences after which we realized that this was form of a chance that we might do some fundraising and try to elevate some cash,” Sutherland stated in an unique interview with CTV Atlantic’s Katie Kelly.
“I’m terribly sorry for the difficulty that you just’re going by way of and know that your neighbours and your fellow Nova Scotians and Canadians are going to do all the things they will to try to enable you,” he added.
The Pink Financial institution crew hosted a personal occasion within the Halifax space Friday evening to boost the funds.
A message posted to the model’s Instagram account Sunday stated it surpassed the $100,000 donation mark inside 24 hours.
Pink Financial institution added its contribution “will probably be directed in direction of supporting the Nova Scotia wildfires aid efforts by way of a donation to The Canadian Pink Cross.”
Sutherland filmed his first film “The Bay Boy” in Glace Bay, N.S., when he was a youngster and his father, fellow actor Donald Sutherland, was born in Saint John, N.B.