Posted: Dec 15, 2020 6:45 AM ET | Last Updated: December 15, 2020
Ducks Unlimited fundraising events, like this one, have been the life blood of the conservation group. (photo: DU/ Facebook)
Last winter, Rob Watson was in the thick of helping to organize 30 or so dinner auctions that were to be held right across northern Ontario through the spring.
Watson, the senior manager of volunteer and corporate fundraising for Ducks Unlimited (DU) in northern Ontario, had no idea that most of those dinners would never happen.
On March 10, 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic hit Canada and everything changed overnight. All the DU dinners planned for northern Ontario were cancelled, including a flagship auction in Thunder Bay.