ARROWHEAD
COUNCIL NEWS AND MEETINGS
CLICK HERE for pictures on our picture page
CLICK HERE to read the minutes of our Feb-2007 meeting
Meetings held 3rd Wed. of
each Month
10 AM - Regular membership meeting in the Melrose
Building
12 PM Life Member meeting at the VFW.
For Information contact
JoAnn Cooper -
Res
218 -384-8152 Work 218 726-5305 e-mail joann.cooper@qwest.com
DULUTH AREA ARROWHEAD
COUNCIL OF QWEST PIONEERS HOLDS MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
The Duluth area Arrowhead Council held a successful
Pioneer Membership Drive on April 30;
Between the hours of 11am - 2pm, Pioneer volunteer Char Reno and Nancy
Eilefson were able to share information about Pioneer Benefits, Projects and
Programs.
Joann Cooper, Qwest Pioneer President of the Arrowhead Council joined the
drive during the lunch break to visit with interested applicants.
6 New Qwest Pioneers are now signed up and ready to become involved community
volunteers.
WELCOME TO NEW QWEST PIONEERS
MARY ANDERSON SANDY HEIFNER
TRACY KOLDEN
DIANE RICE ODONNELL MARGARET
ROACH BARBARA SODER
Good Deeds
Duluth News Tribune
Published Wednesday, April 16, 2008
* The Qwest Pioneers is a group of employees and retirees of Qwest
Communications
that is part of the larger volunteer organization named Telecom Pioneers,
which has chapters throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
The Pioneers work on projects that affect the communities in which they live
and work and the
Qwest Pioneers contribute more than 1 million hours of service each year.
Every March the Pioneers collect donations for the food shelves;
this year they even held a spaghetti luncheon and employees volunteered their
time to prepare and serve the meal.
Coopers Dent Clinic in Duluth and Erosion Control Specialists of Cloquet/Esko
donated $50 in gas cards
that were raffled at the event and $482.25 was raised, which was split between
CHUM and the Union Gospel Mission.
Another chapter, the Arrowhead Pioneers, also donated $400 to the Duluth food
shelf
and $200 each to the food shelves in Hibbing, Grand Rapids and Virginia.
The Arrowhead Council, which is located at 322 W. First St.,
also continues it’s work on its “Hug-a-Bears” project. Volunteers donate time
and materials to create bears
which are distributed to the police department, fire department and
hospitals to help comfort children at time of crisis.
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Jodi & Jade Hakamake working at
the Fund raiser
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WHAT ARE THE ODDS???? In 2005 Gloria Berger (former Arrowhead Council President) made & donated a quilt to be raffled for the March Food Drive that Melrose Bldg Qwest employees, Qwest Pioneers & CWA 7214 participate in. The quilt was won by Qwest Pioneer Becky Koivisto. There was no raffle in 2006 but in 2007 Gloria had a friend from the group she plays cribbage with make a quilt for the March Food Drive in exchange for lap robe tops Gloria made. Becky Koivisto won that quilt also. Gloria also helped one of her cribbage friends sell some raffle tickets in 2007 for quilts from the Queen of Peace Church quilters in Cloquet. There was a queen sized quilt & a baby quilt both in the same raffle. First name drawn got the queen quilt & second got the baby quilt. Becky Koivisto won the queen quilt. Becky was very excited about this as she was married at the Queen of Peace Church in Cloquet many years ago & her son attended kindergarten there before they moved closer to Duluth. The baby quilt was won by another of Gloria's cribbage playing friends she had sold a ticket too. Tickets from the cribbage group were turned in weeks before the Qwest sold tickets. The Church quilters made over $400 with tickets $1 each. So WHAT ARE THE ODDS of Becky winning all 3 quilts Gloria got involved in raffling. And WHAT ARE THE ODDS that Gloria would sell both winning tickets for the 2 quilts in the same raffle? |
If you
are interested in getting involved with the Qwest Pioneer sewing projects we
would like to hear from you. If you have any kind of material (either
remnants or yardage), batting (either
fill or quilt), thread or yarn that you would like to donate please give
Gloria a call at 218 726-5309 (please remember calls must be kept short as
this is a # at work). If you have a good working sewing machine you
would like to donate please call.![]() If you have other interests & would like the Pioneers to get involved in them contact Gloria so it can be discussed at a Council meeting -which you would be welcome to attend on the 3rd Wed of each month in the Melrose Bldg. |
Pioneer cookbooks $10.75 ea. tax included
To Purchase
Contact
Gloria Berger
218-726-5309 - Barb Cane 218-720-0231
Debbie Frankowiak 218-726-5318
Arrowhead
Council is collecting
Eye Glasses & Hearing Aids
to be donated to the LIONS CLUB