PwYF 2025/26 Campaign Launch – Every Move Counts!

Play with Your Food (PwYF) kicks off its 2025/26 micro-fundraising season on June 15. Get your gaming face on because our goal is to raise $75,000 over the next year. Teams will register and begin hosting a variety of gaming nights in Regina…

Meeples in your neighborhood: David Popoff

By Carmen Pauls Orthner A single flute can perform alone and still create beautiful music, just as a board game can be played solo and still be a great experience. But as both a musician and a gamer, David Popoff would choose the group experience…

PwYF 2024/25 Campaign Wrap

Dear PwYF Supporters, We are truly humbled and filled with gratitude as we celebrate the incredible success of the 2024/25 Play with Your Food Campaign. Thanks to your generosity and dedication, we raised an astounding $86,319 - all in support…

Meeples in your neighborhood: Jason Vanstone

By Carmen Pauls Orthner Curious as to how a biologist became a board gamer? Blame the zombies. Jason Vanstone is a leader with Play with Your Food as PwYF’s Social Media Coordinator. He’s clearly a smart, creative, out-of-the-box thinker…

Meeples in your neighborhood: Kristy Smith

Few people can actually say that board gaming saved their lives; Kristy Smith is an exception. Nearly twenty years ago, in her mid-twenties, Kristy was recovering from one of several operations she had endured in the decade since health issues…

Meeples in your neighborhood: Mac Grassick

Mac Grassick has lived in Regina most of his life, and he’s currently the general manager at Boston Pizza North Albert (BPs), the homebase of ChewsDay Challenge. Mac fell in love with Dungeons & Dragons when he was young but credits…

PwYF 2024 December Greetings

Going into December, we are once again regaled with Christmas music, sparking lights, and the season of joy and goodwill. It’s heartwarming to be immersed in the season. We like to pause and reflect on the abundance in our life throughout…

There’s always another place at the table at Carmichael Outreach

By Carmen Pauls Orthner, Editor Are you hungry? Lonely? Tired? Come on in. Escaped from an abusive relationship with only the clothes on your back? Newly arrived in Canada, only to find your apartment has no furniture, or even a mattress?…

3 steps to successful fundraising

By Chelsea Low Choosing and hosting a PwYF team fundraiser can seem daunting at first, but if you follow these three tricks, you’re guaranteed success: Choose something you really want to do yourself! Create a Facebook event AND…

Flipping for cribbage proves successful strategy

If you copy your own idea for a successful fundraising event, is it really considered “cribbing”? It is for The Table Flippers, a PwYF team who’ve raised nearly $1,300 with their two cribbage tournaments this campaign year – with more…

Meeples in your neighborhood: Becky Shepherd

Becky Shepherd may live on a bison ranch, but it’s among board gamers that she’s truly found her herd. The Shepherd family – Becky, her husband Avery, and their two daughters – live near Livelong, a hamlet northwest of North Battleford,…

Meeples in your neighborhood: Jeff Haubrich

How did a group of friends from Moosomin – a town of 3,000 people located 20 km west of the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border – get involved in raising money to help Regina’s less fortunate? For Jeff Haubrich and his team, when it comes…

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