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,

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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