the trail

Suctess stories continue to come in to the
United Way office from all sections of the
campaign, led by the efforts of employee
groups such as the people at Chevron, who
exceeded 80 per cent of their fundraising
potential and racked up their sixth
straight Gold Award. Their wind-up Wine
and Cheese victory party Oct. 22 had 100
donated prizes. Our hats go off to ECCs
Lynn Rogers and Frank Sharpe.

Microtel, the wonderful corporation which
has spearheaded our training programs for
the past three years, has achieved success
in their employee campaigns as_ well.
Their Pachena Division, which ran its first
campaign this year, came within 4% of a
gold award. They're in good company,
with Microtel Viscount Industries tripling
their goal, and similar efforts and results
. are recorded in other company divisions.

At Crown Forest, they kicked off with
three -- count ‘em, three -- pancake
breakfasts at their FlexPak Division to
cover all shifts, starting at 6 a.m. At their
draw, second prize was dinner at the Keg,
but first prize was choice -- the privilege
of throwing a cream pie at the production
manager's face. Talk about motivation!

Nick Worhaug of Local 40 and Employee
Campaign Chair (ECC) Patty McGlone
made sure all departments at the Hyatt
Regency were covered by a presentation,
and they even staged a Build Your Own
Sundae contest for United Way. An
enthusiastic campaign which is sure to
bring results.

Red Cross staff got into the spirit with a
gourmet breakfast of crepes accompanied
by the voices of the Vancouver City
singers, and the commissioner and senior
staff served as waiters.

You could get high giving at Bentall. A hot
air balloon ride over the Fraser Valley was
their early bird prize for all contributors,

   

 

Bronze

TEAM EFFORT. Barbara Rae presents
Award to Jenny Mills and Gord Milsom, Employe
Campaign Chairs at Royal Trust who led team of
23 canvassers to a 52 % Increase.

in addition to about 40 other donated
prizes for their kick-off ceremonies.. Wth
participatuion of 82.,7 percent and an
average gift of $119.69, they've earned a
goald again in ‘87.

MacMillan Bloedel, employees have
created the most exciting campaign@
they've had in years, with dollar results
expected to exceed all projections. It's
too early to report results, but Kwantlen
College's Bob Lowe and his team has also
organized a barn-burner of a campaign, led
by an energetic and creative committee.

The Scott Paper train told the tale: The
large painted train posted outside their
New Westminster plant had a roll of paper
added to it for each $3,400 raised. They
had to add cars to accommodate 12 rolls,
representing $41,428, and raised partici-
pation to 70.5 per cent. Great work!

They're reaching all 5,800 employees at
UBC (a City Within A City) with a mail
campaign headed by Cy Finnegan and his
UBC Keeners and committee team, which
is expected to bring strong results in the
weeks ahead ...

At Petro-Canada, the Retail Marketing
division got off to a flying start and |
quit until they'd raised $2369, up 20 pe