IIa Helps the United Way
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Results are in from our United Way campaign. Locally, IIa staff contributed nearly $5,500 to the campaign. In addition, a number of IIa staff at library sites and locally contributed through other channels, such as the Combined Federal Campaign or through their spouse's place of employment. We asked project managers to poll staff to find out if we have
staff One of our senior IIa executives said that her family needed home health care before a hospice situation and used a United Way agency because they were the best. She noted that you pay for the service according to your financial situation, which is a wonderful thing because it provides benefits to all economic levels. One Oak Ridge staffer has found the local Boys Club to be a true blessing. As a working, single mother, the cost of full-time daycare during the summer and on school holidays for her 10-year-old had become a struggle. But when she discovered the Boys Club near her workplace, she was overjoyed. The Boys Club provides a supervised program of athletics, educational and social activities, and even arts and crafts, all at a very nominal cost! Martha Wallus, Director of Administration, told of an experience several years ago with the Victims/Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP), the forerunner of CASA and Mediation Services. Her home and two cars were vandalized, resulting in $1500 in damages. Three juveniles were caught and she agreed to mediate for financial restitution of a $500 deductible, which allowed the charges to be expunged from their records when they turned 18 as long as they did not get into trouble again. Two of the three youths paid some restitution, but one only paid $15. His record was not expunged; the one who didn't pay anything went to juvenile detention on another charge. The one who did pay his share in full graduated from high school and went on to college. Pat Johnson at F.E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB) has had friends with breast cancer who were given help from the local Cancer Society and Komen Wyoming Race for the Cure foundation. Also, when the tornado hit Cheyenne in 1979, Pat and her husband Wayne lived in the area affected. They had no water, natural gas or electricity for varying amounts of time. The Red Cross provided water and set up food canteens in their neighborhood. The Red Cross also helped when Cheyenne had a 100 year flood in 1985 in which 11 people died. |
We have some involvement with Boy and Girl Scout programs. At Langley AFB, Terry McFarland's son is a member of Boy Scout Troop 218. At F.E. Warren, Pat Johnson has helped with daughter Alexa's Cadette Girl Scout Troop 54 for the entire eight years her daughter has been a scout. She has been the cookie chairman (a BIG job!) for the past two years. In Oak Ridge, Susanne Dupes is in her fourth year as leader of daughter Rynn's Cadette Girl Scout Troop 1007 and serves as secretary for the West Knox Service Unit. Other volunteer work at F.E. Warren include Deb Parker's (circulation assistant) work as the "fact and statistics checker" for the Wyoming State Right to Life Essay Contest. For the past three years, busy Pat Johnson has served as the Hospitality Chairman for the Komen Wyoming Race for the Cure. Among our Eglin CCSS staff, Marvin Lesher, Employee Development
Specialist, has volunteered with and donated to Habitat
for Humanity and his wife volunteers with Meals
on Wheels and the Okaloosa County Council on Aging.
Helen Salley, Base Education and Training Clerk, walks for the
American Diabetes Association and the American
Cancer Society's Relay for Life. Project Director Steve
Gardner participated in a 5K charity walk for the local
Red Cross. In Oak Ridge, Martha Wallus is a former President and Treasurer
of the Also in Oak Ridge comes DOE Information Center Manager Karen Valentine's involvement with the Epilepsy Foundation. She was diagnosed with epilepsy in 1981, which resulted in months of medication dosage trial and error as well as losing her driver's license for the state-mandated year. But she received support from the Epilepsy Foundation, and has since been giving back by volunteering at fund raising events and providing training sessions at local middle and high schools. The United Way provides support to agencies throughout the nation that touch or will touch most of our lives or the lives of a loved one. IIa is proud to support the United Way. |
who
volunteer with a United Way agency and if any have ever benefited
from a United Way agency. The answer to both questions was "Yes".
Anderson
County United Way, has served on the Board of Directors for Girls,
Inc. and Scarboro Day Care Center, and has
served in an advisory capacity for several agencies to plan fund
raisers, write long-term business plans, and draft organization
policies and procedures.