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Show ' '. If ., ...... . ,, ,i UW PACESETTERS The United Way campaign in Davis County is on the way toward reaching their goal of $100,000. Six companies were selected to conduct their employee campaign in August and September. THEY HAVE set a tremendous tremen-dous example of how companies com-panies and their employees, can achieve great results in raising funds for United Way Agencies. Each of these pacesetter companies have raised significantly many more dollars than they did last year. Some of the pacesetter coordinators recognized recently for their successful United Way campaign efforts are: 1 to r, Tom Earl, assistant manager, Ernst Home Center, Centerville; Tom Winegar, president, Tom's Super Save, Layton; Raymond Adams, city councilman, Clearfield City Corp. The employees of K Mart, Woods Cross, riased $1,017. Their average gift per giver was $23.34. Barbara Hatch, personnel manager at K Mart was the United Way coordinator. coor-dinator. ERNST HOME Center . employees in Centerville had 100 percent employee participation par-ticipation (second year in a row). They increased their employee contributions by 75 percent. They also doubled their company 'contribution. Steve Albertson, coordinated the Ernst Home Center campaign. Utah Bank & Trust Company, Com-pany, Bountiful, finalized their campaign with a 62 percent per-cent of their employees participating par-ticipating in the campaign. The bank matched the employee contributions with a . firm gift. Claude Snow, vice president at the bank, spearheaded their successful campaign. ANOTHER selected pacesetter corporation was Lakeview Hospital in Bountiful. Boun-tiful. This was their first campaign as a new hospital. Betty Simons, personnel. ' director at the hospital, supervised the campaign ef-fort-which raised over $800. The employees of Clearfield city tripled their donations over last year, raising an all-time all-time high of over $700. Ninety-five percent of the employees participated. City Councilman Ray Adams, coordinated the campaign effort ef-fort with the city employees. TOM'S SUPER Save in Layton has been a strong United Way supporter. They did an excellent job as a pacesetter company this year. Ninety-one percent of their employees participated, giving giv-ing an average gift of $29.66 each. The company also increased its firm gift. Tom Winegar, company president, headed this successful campaign cam-paign effort. This year's pacesetter chairmen in Davis County are Merlin Fielding, owner of The Real Estate Co., Clearfield, and Claude Snow, vice president of Utah Bank & Trust Co., Bountiful THE SUCCESS of the pacesetter companies is attributed at-tributed to the support of top management, agency tours, and film showings to the company employees. In 20 minutes a company can present the United Way program to the employees and finalize 85 percent of the campaign. This saves a lot of time for the company and personnel working on the campaign. These six pacesetter companies com-panies raised a total of $4,776, which is much more than was raised by them last year. They have set an excellent pace for the campaign, and have shown the community that they support the United Way and its member agencies. agen-cies. THERE IS no better way to give, than the United Way. It provides the lowest in fund-raising fund-raising costs, accountability standards and a consolidated drive for 79 agencies along the Wasatch Front. |