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Laugh for a cause in Kelowna

Mamas For Mamas helps to raise funds to send families of deaf and hard-of-hearing children to camp
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Fundraiser comedy show at Kelowna Curling Club, Friday May 3. (Train Wreck Comedy)

If you haven含羞草研究社檛 laughed enough this week, you含羞草研究社檙e in luck.

Train Wreck Comedy is pulling into the Kelowna Curling Club for a special fundraiser event, in collaboration with Mamas For Mamas and the Okanagan Valley Association of the Deaf, on May 3.

The show will raise funds for families of deaf and hard-of-hearing children across the B.C. Interior for an opportunity to attend the Green Bay Bible Camp from August 26-29. Interpreters of American Sign Language (ASL) will make the comedy show accessible to the deaf community.

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Balsdon will host the event and has lined up comedians Joey Commisso and headliner Allyson June Smith. Smith含羞草研究社檚 comedy career includes performances at the Winnipeg, Halifax, and Montreal含羞草研究社檚 Just For Laughs festivals, she has also received multiple nominations for Best Female Stand-up at the Canadian Comedy Awards and has taped her own Comedy Now special.

Tickets are $40 each and are available online at .

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About the Author: Jen Zielinski

I am a broadcast journalism graduate from BCIT and hold a bachelor of arts degree in political science and sociology from Thompson Rivers University. I enjoy volunteering with local organizations, such as the Okanagan Humane Society.
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