ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, March 12, 1996 TAG: 9603120071
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: PULASKI
SOURCE: NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
The Pulaski County United Way fund drive for this year exceeded its $250,000 goal by $3,000.
Campaign Chairwoman Betty Lou Crawford said the credit goes to the hundreds of drive volunteers and all the businesses and industries with their employees as well as individual contributors.
Crawford also credited the campaign cabinet of Bill Hubble, Walt Shannon, Phyllis Hayes, Nancy Burchett, Micki Viers, Peggy Holden, Jeannie Southern, Cookie Dudley, Carol Hodge, Ann Neighbors, Joyce Gray and Bill Matthews.
The announcement that the drive exceeded its goal came at last week's awards and volunteer appreciation dinner at New River Community College. Jim Cox, general manager of the Volvo-GM Heavy Truck Corp., which is the county's largest employer, was the main speaker and said Volvo employees believe that United Way is essential to the community's well-being.
One volunteer, John Spangler, was singled out by United Way Executive Director Susan Roop-Dalrymple as helping make the campaign progress visible.
"John was a United Way board member several years ago. He takes his time each year to put up the United Way goal boards that are placed in Pulaski and Dublin," she said. "This requires a lot of work on his part in putting them up and then taking them down. It is volunteer actions such as these that make Pulaski County United Way so successful."
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