Milton District Hospital Poker Run
Breakfast with Santa, Milton District Hospital Foundation: This is an annual event put on by the Milton District Hospital Foundation and this year it's on November 24, 2019. You purchase tickets in advance, and these tickets get you a lot of value – buffet of excellent food, silent auction, fun activities, live children’s entertainment.
Every Year We Are Asked Questions About Our Show So We Thought To Answer Some Common Ones
I decided to seek the nomination as your Conservative Party of Canada candidate in the next federal election because I believe Milton deserves and needs. Grant serves the Milton District Hospital Foundation as vice chair and is a past chair of the foundation. He has donated thousands of dollars to the hospital foundation through his personal donations as well as donations from his trucking companies. He is also the finance chairman of the Ontario Hockey Association. Motorcycle enthusiasts will gather once again for the 12th Annual Charity Poker Run. Riders will register at Halton Auto Service & Transmission, located at 88 Ontario St. In Milton, before setting off on a scenic 200 km ride. All proceeds from this event will support the Milton District Hospital Foundation.
It is all controlled through a computer with a specialized program. On the outside of the house there are what we call controllers. Some of the controllers have 16 extension cords coming from it which can control 16 different parts of the house … mostly the LED and rope lights. There is also a different controller for what we call RGB lights, which is what you see on the house .. these lights will turn ANY color, through the software.
In total we have 8 controllers. Each of these are joined together using cat5 cable making a network. The software communicates to the controllers and brings the lights to life.
The music goes through a low range FM transmitter which allows us to broadcast the music coming from the computer into your car radio.
I can set up all the lights in about 4 – 5 days, with good weather, and an extra 2 – 3 days to run all the wiring.
If we are doing a large build on new items, like we did for 2014, then there are a lot more hours involved.
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I work on the construction of props throughout the summer.
Each song that you see may only be 2 – 3 minutes long but it can take 8 – 10 hours to program that song, especially if there is singing and the mouth on the face has to be synchronized.
To animate the face we have to play the song at 1/2 speed marking all the syllables and then determining what mouth position makes that sound.
It is easy to appreciate that a song with 3 minutes of singing can alone take hours…. but it does look GREAT when it is all done !
Believe it or not .. over 95% of the show in 2014 is either LED lights or 12 volt pixels and the entire power is just over 20 amps .. We barely saw an increase in our hydro for that month.
We start planning next year’s show early in the year.
Light suppliers have sales in the new year, with delivery of the lights in the summer. By February or March, we need to know what we plan on adding for the following season.
Milton District Hospital Poker Run Results
100% of the money collected stays locally and is donated to the Milton Hospital Foundation. In our first first years of doing our show we have collected over $20,810 .. Thank-you to you the viewers !!
Each year my wife and I budget money for upgrades to the show. This is our gift back to the community in the spirit of the season. Every single penny that we collect goes to the hospital.
We have a small FM transmitter that will broadcast our music a few blocks on a specific frequency ..