Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 24, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Winnipeg free september get out your wallets United Way drive kicks off today by Reeha Khan for the free press at Centra finding newer and More creative ways to raise Money for the United Way is just As important As the Money so after the tricycle indoor baseball and lip sync contests of past 1997 will be remembered for Hollywood Complete with Willie Michael Jackson and that How 700 Centra employees kicked off their 1997 United Way Campaign getting a on Day jump on the United Way this company always does really said employee Campaign chair Man Al sporting a Sombrero and digging into a Taco salad at the mexican Hollywood squares Ive been chair five or six times and i always have fun doing the United Way of Winnipeg officially kicks off its 1997 fundraising but Centra Gas and More than 90 other groups in Winnipeg have already started to bring in Money in the last few but this years target As Well As the amount raised so far is a closely guarded secret that wont be revealed until the launch at memorial Park at in million was Over the during the next three More than volunteers and is United Way staff will be working tirelessly at Pancake breakfasts and barbecues and canvassing the Community to raise Money for the More than 65 Community service agencies the United Way supports every Campaign chairman Dale Peterson sees two big challenges for the United Way this one is to raise our goal he Ken free press centres Wayne Shannon Neufeld play the part of Satur Day night lives spartan cheerleaders at fundraiser and the second one is to target there Are a lot of people who have Given while they were in the we have to expand our donor base and increase the amount per area director for the Cana Dian Auto workers is the first labour chairman in the Charity 41 year history in despite the fact the Charity was founded As a joint venture Between the Winnipeg chamber of Commerce and the Winnipeg labour and while he will be working Long Days to raise awareness of the United ways work and representing the labour Community Paterson is also working around the clock in negotiations Between Plant workers and management at versatile City students Are also a major part of this years fundraising fifty Junior High school and High school Stu dents will be at today where they will brainstorm new ways to raise Money at their in a similar Effort last students developed the idea of duct taping Stu dents to a gym with prizes going to the class whose student stayed up the other unusual activities this year include a muffin and cinnamon Bun breakfast at the Canadian Grain com Mission with the baked goods coming from the commissions own labs using different types of wheat a dollars Orzollar Matching Campaign at the Manitoba liquor and a carnival 8 at the United Way is also collecting Winter Coats for children at All Robins donuts locations and the Csc building at 541 Portage cheques May be mailed to the United 3rd 5 Donald win r3l phone number for the Campaign is 477uway an email address will be working in the next few and you can stay updated on the Campaign by viewing the web site at Gigantic liquidation of name Brand refrigerators ranges washers dryers freezers dishwashers Jyh Foint dish Whf mm6e inter to win a 27 we have purchased a select group of appliance at special Cost arc Thi savings on to you limited quantities dont miss out Washer a prom 12 month1 f ree on 4 hotpoint appliances dryer for discontinued models at sacrifice prices All appliances tvs on Sale huge discounts on floor models financing available Rockport appliances it 6969 hen4irsqh those facing death just need someone to be there for them she called with aft unusual at least id never heard one like she said her name was Marion she was from Portage la Prairie and she was wondering if i could get a message to Burton cum that want the unusual it was this there was a Mother of three named Lynne who had been a Burton Cummings fan since she was a Little girl and at she was dying of and Well could Burton do something for her she want asking for a just an acknowledgement of some Marion said it was Lynnes Randy who had been hoping Burton could make some kind of there was More to the Story that i Only Learned Lynne and her husband Lawrence live in Agathe and they lost their Home this just after she Learned that the spot on her lung Doc tors thought they had caught was spreading throughout her during the Lawrence suffered a broken sternum when his vehicle was clobbered at an intersection by an army and that Side lined him from his Job As manager of mid Canada i told Marion Campbell that i would try to reach Burton through his agent or you dont Call Burton at least not he Calls in the Middle of the i reached Sam Bur tons Road manager in he sighed when i told him about the Burton Cummings fan who was dying and wanted to hear from her he gets a million of these a Boyd he does people Are always wanting him to sing stand tall at the problem Burton just cant handle sad like going to see someone who Boyd asked me what the family wanted Burton to i didst really a visit to Victoria Hospital or a phone perhaps Boyd could give Marion a or Lynnes Randy Blan and they could suggest some then Boyd said this Gordon Sinclair what do you say to someone who dying i gave him their phone numbers in Hopes that maybe Burton would be Able to do something for a dying woman who worshipped him from and then i forgot about or tried Boyds final question haunted i called the health sciences centres spiritual care depart ment and put the question to Stan what do you say to someone who dying his was this people who know their life is com ing to an end need Good listeners with he and that Means times of silence that you i wondered if the listeners should Ever share How there if theres some sense that a person needs to know How were feeling and we have an experience that there Are maybe some times when we can offer some Brief the hardest Mckay is to let the person talk about what they want to talk there Are times when the terminally ill Are too tired to but they need to know that theres someone with he people who Are seriously ill Are very lonely because they Are being avoided and our own fear of death May cause us to avoid the subject or avoid the so i to it comes Down to this just be there for he on just Over a week after Marion Campbells first she phoned again and left a Lynne Bowden had died just after Midnight on i called her he said an autographed photo of Burton Cummings arrived late last week and hed taken it up to her room on she saw her brother and it was Sunshine fund loses coordinator Bettie who has guided the free press Sunshine fund through All but one of its 17 is headed South and not just for the a grand plans to return to the City of her birth and Hopes to find work her resignation As fund coordinator and Manitoba camping association executive director is effective Walls says when she was hired As the associations executive director 16 years the Sunshine fund was a Small part of her but it just grew and donations went from about the first year to More than this Send ing More than children to Camp Over the it has been absolutely really opening up new avenues for these Walls she says the fund began when the camping association approached the free press about we knew there were a lot of kids who wanted to go to Camp because of financial could never really Hope she the free press provides while the association administers the the free press made All the differ besides the Money Given we get donations from across the coun try and even Walls its hard to leave this which has been such a big part of my life for 16 but i want to enter a different phase of my life and spend More time with my she 100 it i Princess Diana honoured on postage Stamps just Days before her tragic death limited edition is lasting tribute to the Queen of Peoples hearts a togs Days before 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