Glenn Shuck, executive director of Labor’s Community Service
Agency, has been a busy man collecting toys and cash for the
11th annual Presents for Partners Holiday Toy Drive. (ABOVE
LEFT). Shuck received several hundred dollars worth of gifts
from John Endicott, business manager of Plumbers and Fitters
Local 290. (ABOVE CENTER) He picked up a check for
$1,000 from Union Insurance Agency. Presenting the check is
Wilma Abney, who is a member of Bakers Local 364. (ABOVE
RIGHT) Local 483 Union Rep Michael Dehner (left) helps
Oregon Zoo zookeeper and union shop steward Jeb Barsh
(center), and Alex and Rachael Skelton unload two pallets of
Transformer action figures to the cause. Others helping to
unload the truck were Union Rep Lonn Holston, office secretary
Darlene Marie and the Skelton’s daughter, Morgaine.
Labor-sponsored holiday toy drive shaping up to be a big one
The 11th annual Presents for Part-
ners Holiday Toy Drive sponsored by
the Northwest Oregon Labor Council
and Labor’s Community Service
Agency is shaping up to be a good
one.
Cash and toys are pouring in from
all over the place, reported Glenn
Shuck, executive director of Labor’s
Community Service Agency. Gifts
will be distributed Saturday, Dec. 22,
at noon at Genesis Community Cen-
ter, 5425 NE 27th Ave., off
Killingsworth.
On Dec. 7, members and staff of
Laborers Local 483 helped unload
two pallets of Transformer action fig-
ures.
The toys — 940 in all — were do-
nated by video game retailer Game
Crazy. The union hooked up with the
store through connections at the Ore-
gon Zoo, where zookeeper and Local
483 steward Jeb Barsh has helped col-
lect items for the toy drive for several
years. Barsh was pitching the toy drive
to co-workers at the elephant barn.
That’s where volunteer Rachael Skel-
ton heard about it. It just so happens
that Rachael’s husband, Alex, works
at Game Crazy, and he had been asked
by his boss to find a charity to give
some leftover Transformer toys to.
“Unity works in two directions,”
Barsh said. “It works when bargaining
contracts, and it works for the good of
the community.”
On Dec. 10, Union Insurance
Agency presented Labor’s Commu-
nity Service Agency with a check for
$1,000. Union Insurance, which is
owned by Alan Gervais, issued a chal-
lenge to other businesses with union
clientele to “meet or beat” the contri-
bution.
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On Dec. 11, Shuck was at the
Plumbers and Fitters Local 290 hall
where Business Manager John Endi-
cott presented him with several hun-
dred dollars worth of toys.
“This will bring a lot of smiles to a
lot of underprivileged kids,” Shuck
said.
Toy-collecting typically begins in
September at the BULL Session Golf
Tournament, where participants bring
unwrapped gifts for the toy drive.
Saturn of Beaverton also sets out a
barrel each holiday season to collect
gifts. This year it will contribute more
than 200 toys, Shuck said.
Then, starting around Thanksgiv-
ing, unions and businesses start drop-
ping off toys at the labor council and
labor agency offices.
“I’m really overwhelmed by the
generosity the locals have shown for
the toy drive. The need is so great,”
said Judy O’Connor, executive secre-
tary-treasurer of the the labor council.
O’Connor and NOLC office secre-
tary Judy Devlaeminck went on a
shopping spree with the cash dona-
tions, paying particular attention to buy
U.S.-made and union-made goods.
W
armest
wishes
this
Holiday
Season!
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Earl B. Kirkland
Vice-President: Gary D. Kirkland
Vice-President: Martell F. Blake
Sec.-Treasurer: Clair C. Anderson
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