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
 

The Spirit of Service Ride 2008
First Annual Motorcycle Ride to Support our Troops and Veterans
Sponsored by Arrowhead Council - Qwest Pioneers
Saturday June 28, 2008
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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.