Foiled again!

I don't get it. I just don't get it. Every holiday I somehow create a better door than the one before, and every holiday my door is sadly left aside and some other door wins.
This is no longer an issue of sour grapes, this has become a conspiracy! St. Patty's will decide if I ever, participate in a door decorating contest again. My heart just can't take the failure much longer. So Larry, Julia, this means war.

OWEYO-WEYO-WEYO-WEYA...it's the survivor theme...

Well the Survivor Office Pool has begun. Names have been drawn, torches have been lit and i'm creating a didgeridoo as i type...no big deal. Contestants have been assigned as follows:

Amy - Ben, Cirie
Andie - Danielle, Jessica
Bob - Tyson, Colby
Brenda - Parvati, Amanda
Connie - Rupert & Randy
Jack - J.T., Sandra
Julia - Stephanie, Courtney
Larry - Jerri, Candice
Tambra - Russell, Tom

Let's see how the very first tribal council goes tonight during Survivor Heroes VS Villains!

Weekend in the Croft

This past weekend was our North Hastings Warehouse Sale. I of course had to suck it up and stand out in the cold for most of the day but time flew by thanks to all the great volunteers who gave me a lot to laugh about and of course Connie's winter get ups always make me chuckle..haha. But a special thanks goes out to all the public works guys, especially Chris Ray who made the whole day go by very smoothly and helped raise $32,000 for United Way of Quinte. A huge thank you goes out to all our sponsors as well: Meyer's Transport, Town of Bancroft, Vito's Pizzeria, Subway, Dixie Lee Chicken & Seafood, T.A.S. Communications, Whitfield Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning, Culligan The Good water Company, Tim Hortons, No Frills, McDonald's, P&G, Sears and Amer Sports.

A huge congrats goes out to the Haiti Relief Spaghetti dinner that was hosted at the Legion and raised over $13,000. It was a great weekend for great causes. Thank you Bancroft!

A year in numbers...

Being my first campaign, I can't even believe how much work went into achieving a number like the one United Way did this year, but it was a lot. I realize I haven't that much corporate experience but I have never seen people work this hard in my life.

This year our Acievement Celebration was held at the Empire Theatre and it was a perfect venue to reveal our $1.615 million dollar campaign total. A number we could not have possible reached without all the local organizations who signed up for payroll deductions, sponsored events and donated. On top of that, we can't thank enough all the volunteers who went out to get that corporate support, including all the ECC's, Cabinet members, office and event volunteers... and of course Mark Philbin who was fantastic as the Campaign Chair this year. Thank you again to EVERYONE who had a hand in making this campaign a huge success and congrats to all the staff at United Way for all their hard work :)

Long time coming....

So it's been forever, and I apologize but January was absolutely hectic! It started out with a whirlwind online sale...

This is Julia and Connie hammering out the details at the warehouse :) It was absolutely crazy... From the moment we opened the sale the e-mails poured in and we were up to our eyeballs in orders by the time it hit noon. Due to the overwhelmingly positive respose, we had to close the sale. SEVEN HUNDRED e-mail orders were received in just three hours and the calls began soon after. But long story short, over $20,000 was raised for our community and it was a learning experience for us all! We hope to pursue this avenue again, perhaps with a few more tweaks :P

A big thank you goes out to Tina's Pizzeria for donating lunch to the volunteers and Tim Hortons for coffee and doughnut donations!!