PORT ANGELES — Landscape consultant Jack Marshall and his wife, Peninsula Children’s Clinic administrator Pam Marshall, will co-chair this year’s United Way of Clallam County fundraising campaign.
Marshall, a consultant for Blake Sand and Gravel Inc. will head a campaign team of community leaders across Clallam County.
Live United
Theme for the drive, which begins in earnest in September is “Live United . . . Now More Than Ever.”
The campaign goal: $1.1 million. Last year’s campaign grossed $1.11 million.
In addition to providing funding assistance to 27 health and human service agencies, United Way sponsors several “community solution” programs, including the Clallam County Literacy Council, the Access to Health Care Coalition and the 2-1-1 Help Line.
Here are the civic leaders in charge of this year’s campaign components:
• The Port Angeles division of the campaign will be led by Fire Chief Dan McKeen.
• In Sequim, campaign efforts will be coordinated by Sharon DelaBarre of DelaBarre and Associates.
• Tom Baermann of Pacific Office Equipment, Port Angeles, will oversee employee campaigns for work-place giving, and Linty Hopie of the Peninsula College Entrepreneurial Institute will chair the corporate-gifts division.
• At Olympic Medical Center, the combined fund drive will again be led by CEO Eric Lewis
• Clallam County employee giving will be coordinated again by County Treasurer Judith Scott.
• The Combined Federal Campaign for federal employees in Clallam County will be coordinated by Lt. j.g. Heather Sharp of U.S. Coast Guard Group/Air Station Port Angeles.
• The state employees division in Clallam will be led by Tom Angier of the Attorney General’s Office.
• Bill Peach, Quileute tribe executive director, and Diana Reaume, Quillayute Valley School District superintendent, will again co-chair the Forks campaign. Clallam Bay Postmaster Linda Dillard will lead the fundraising efforts in Clallam Bay and Sekiu. The Joyce community campaign will be led by Tom Anderson, Crescent School District superintendent.
Greater need
Pam Marshall said this year’s United Way needs are greater than in the past because of the recession, including higher unemployment amid cutbacks to education, government and health and human service programs.
“We know that Clallam County has the most caring and giving community,” she said.
More information about getting involved in the fund drive or making a donation is available by phoning the United Way offices at 360-457-3011.
