Spring of 2011
NEWSLETTER from
Heartland
Council Pioneers of Omaha in
service and support to
the community.
HCP Bylines by Richard Maxwell… Completed Events of 2010,
plus future 2011:
Adopt-a-Family / through the
Radio-thon process: On Friday morning of
Dec-2nd, our
ten Pioneers were at the Salvation Army Headquarters
completing the paper work and
mailers to inform the Adoptees and the benefactors alike with
confirmations. Our Thank
you to the following for helping on this 8:00 am to Noon
project: Joe Bonaiuto; Lois Britell;
Bill Fleming; Lloyd and Barb Gray; Ron and Joan Siwa; Doug Thomas;
plus
Richard and Cathy
Maxwell;
Bell Ringing for S.A.
Kettles: This last December of 2010
required coverage on three Saturdays at assigned locations. We rang at Sam’s
Club, 13113 L St with these good volunteers on Dec-4th. Our Thank you to: Bill Peters; Don and Vernetta
Dirks; Charlene Thompson; Sylvia Jones;
Claude Welch; Doug Thoms; and Paul Pickeral.
The next
Saturday Dec-11th. Our
Thank you goes to: Bill Peters; Lloyd and Barb Gray; Darla Plymale; and Lois Britell…
Kevin Arnold filled in from 4:00 to 6:00 pm. But the extreme cold made Kevin’s
shift the last for that Saturday. The last Saturday we rang was Dec-18th.
Bill peters; Frank
and Rose Markesi;
George Parkerson; Rick and Melody Madej; Norman Thomas; plus Jim and Joee Kvetensky. All in all we worked 128 hours with our 23
volunteers and the Kettle dollars reached $1,167.55.
Participation Total Hours
from 2010: Our volunteers helped for
59,830 reported hours. The break out hours are thus: Project Connect = 258 hrs; Hug-a-Bears = 15,
965 hrs with delivery of 1,530;
Adopt-a-family = 66 hrs; Bell
ringers = 128 hrs; Driving for the Blind
=807 hrs; Turkey-Fest = 107 hrs; Hooks & needles = 38,781 hrs; Brush-up-NE
= 200 hrs; Administration hrs = 1660 and
Misc Community Services = 1,863 hours.
Upcoming Events for new year of 2011:
First Life-Member-Luncheon (LML) was on Wednesday April 20. Did you notice there is usually a Salvation-Army Food Drive connected to an LML?
The NEXT two dates for our LML’s are:
Aug-3 <CHANGE to the First-Wednesday and then Dec-1st which is a Thursday, so mark up your calendar
dates… right now!!!
Of course we plan to do
another Brush-Up a NE home in August-2011; an Adopt-a-Family /Radio-thon plus
doing another set of Bell-Ringing dates in December of 2011 on 3, 10, & 17th
too. Come help with some of our GREAT projects. They are not difficult and we
try to have some fun each time.