News
December 01, 2006
Team Effort
Every year for the last five years, Hopewell Residential Communities, one of Calgary’s busiest developers, has given their employees an extra day off during the month leading up to Christmas. Sort of. In fact, what the company does is pick a different charitable organization each year, and then the whole company shows up one day to help them. Last year, it was the Interfaith Food Bank. This year, it’s the Salvation Army and the Toy Mountain program, which provides gifts for children of needy families.
Hopewell’s elves, I mean employees, spent all day November 10th sorting toys collected throughout the year – by events like the Salvation Army’s summer motorcycle toy run – and putting together gift baskets. “There’s about 130 of us here today,” said Hopewell’s Steve Hobbs, holding a bundle of presents, standing amidst thousands of boxes and shelves full of toys.
Indeed, everybody from Sanders Lee, Executive Chairman of Hopewell Group of Companies, to Chris Lu of Sabal Crafted Homes was busy working to help make a dent in the enormous amount of toys to sort.
So far they’ve got lots of toys coming in, but they can always use more – toys and volunteers. New toys may be dropped off at Building H1 at the Currie Barracks, 2930 Falaise Avenue S.W. from 9 to 4 Monday through Saturday right up until December 22nd. To volunteer call 685-1159, or visit the website at http://www.ab.salvationarmy.ca <http://www.ab.salvationarmy.ca>
Other Toy Mountain drop boxes are at Petro Canada gas stations, Ikea, and, through the Angels Among Us organization, at Deerfoot, Sunridge and Southcentre Malls.
