Danielle Strong and Samantha Hardy from My Fantastic Maid stop by the United Way office to discuss their three-month promotion where Fantastic Maid will donate 10 per cent of their profits to the United Way of Sarnia Lambton until Dec. 31. While at the office, the Fantastic Maid employees dust off the original Letters Patent of the United Way from Oct. 11, 1957 when the organization was known as the Sarnia and District Community Chest. United Way photojpeg, SO

The 2020 United Way of Sarnia-Lambton campaign is zeroing in on the one-third mark of its Needs Target thermometer.

We have reached $600,000 so far this year from nearly 1,000 donors, campaign chair Vicky Ducharme reported this week. We remain behind last years pace, but we are grateful to those first 1,000 donors who pledged their support.

Ducharme said the first employee campaign to reach its goal is Reliance Home Comfort. She said the campaign began on Sept. 30 and, by that afternoon, had surpassed its $6,000 goal and had reached almost $10,000, which will be matched by Reliance Home Comfort. That employee campaign will be soon completed.

Meanwhile, INEOS Styrolution just closed its employee campaign and surpassed its 2019 totals.

Ducharme said other employee drives seem to be off to a great start, including Imperial, Nova Chemicals, CF Industries and Shell Canada, which had a very successful campaign kick-off breakfast and is planning a socially distant chili cook-off later this month.

The LCBO Point-of-Sale campaign will end this weekend. LCBO customers and employees will have until the end of the day on Sunday to pledge their support in that way. In 2019, more than $40,000 was raised by the 11 LCBO stores in Sarnia and Lambton County by generous employees and customers.

Ducharme said one of the things the United Way is doing differently this year is the use of YouTube.

We have a number of presentations that we would normally do at employee rallies and meetings but is not possible this year, so we have done video presentations, she said. As well, we have a number of videos of both volunteers and clients of the funded agencies. Most of the videos are just a minute or two long and can be viewed by searching for the United Way of Sarnia-Lambton channel on YouTube.

Ducharme said many of the videos have been watched by a large number of viewers, and she has heard good feedback from them.

The United Way of Sarnia-Lambton YouTube channel is also accessible from the United Way website, http://www.theunitedway.on.ca, by clicking on the YouTube icon.

My Fantastic Maid service in Sarnia is running a campaign all fall for the first time this year.

Fantastic Maid will donate 10 per cent from its profits for the months of October, November and December.

Its this kind of creativity that we really encourage and ask local businesses to talk to us about setting up their own unique events to help raise awareness and funds for the United Way, said Ducharme.

To book an appointment with My Fantastic Maid, log on to http://www.myfanasticmaid.com.

The United Way of Sarnia-Lambton campaign will run until the end of the year. More than 18 agencies that provide over 36 local programs and services depend on the United Way of Sarnia-Lambton for funding on an annual basis.

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United Way fundraising campaign approaches one-third of objective - Sarnia Observer

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