PEOPLE People everywhere
They toiled from dawn to dusk to bring in PEOPLE bucks!
If any one group of folks seemed to be everywhere at the Convention, it was the PEOPLE people. They were busy raising the money we need to help elect public officials who are pro-union and pro-working family.
They outdid themselves at this Convention because 1996 is an election year. They helped raise $135,374-enough to help elect some real PEOPLE-lovers.
First, there was the huge PEOPLE booth, which sold T-shirts and caps, mugs and umbrellas-even gym towels and water bottles-all bearing the PEOPLE logo.
Volunteers sold chances on the "Money Machine," where ten winners grabbed as much as $630.
Fun run winners. The PEOPLE Fun Run included almost 200 participants of all ages and from all areas of the country. Some were fit and others just wished they were. But all were in good fiscal shape: The entry fee was a minimum of $100 in pledges.
Male runners. First Place, Gordon Bowman (Washington Local 793, Council 28); Second Place, Tim Medlin (Illinois Local 3297, Council 31); Third Place, Ken Kovacs (Ohio Local 755, Council 8).
Female runners. First Place, Yolanda Pumarejo (New York City Local 371, DC 37); Second Place, Rosemary Smith (Wisconsin Local 705, Council 40); Third Place, Lila Wagner (Illinois Local 501, Council 31).
Last Place Trophy: Paleastine Donaldson (New York Local 205, Council 1707). Youngest Runner was four-year-old Eric Hagen-son of James Hagen (Wisconsin Local 1238, Council 48). Oldest Runner: New York Retiree Chapter 1707 member Ruth Stamm, 84. Wisconsin won the prize for best-represented legislative district with 32 entrants. Ohio Civil Service Employees Association/AFSCME Local 11 Women's Action Committee Relay Team raised $3,161; Team Ohio's Relay Team brought in $1,830 with its 12 members. The three entrants who raised the most money were: Denal Crawford (Wisconsin Local 1654, Council 48), $4,235.09; Kathy Garin (Pennsylvania Local 1050, Council 13), $1,882.52; and John Wyrough (California Local 2264, Council 36), $1,136.
By Susan Ellen Holleran
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A Marriage Made in PEOPLE Nathaniel and Alicia Rose Covington found working with PEOPLE a real bonding experience. They celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary at the Convention. The New Yorkers, both members of DC 37, met six years ago at the PEOPLE booth during AFSCME's Miami Convention. Two years later, at the Las Vegas Convention, they married -- with the folks from the PEOPLE booth as witnesses, of course. |
