Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers, Local 2-591, representing employees at Hercules Bacchus West Plant, collected more than $10,000 to help Utah families and children for Christmas.
The group adopted 34 families with 135 children.They also sponsored a Christmas party at the family homeless shelter for 59 children, and Santa gave each child a stocking filled with fruit, nuts and candy.
This is the 30th year the union has sponsored the Children's Christmas Project.
- Western Temporary Services provided a welcome visitor to two nursing homes, the women's shelter and FHP Hospital.
Santa Claus arrived to deliver candy canes and a message of goodwill.
Western is an international temporary and permanent placement company. It has a Santa division with several slots allotted each year solely to providing community service.
- Fifteen needy families will benefit from a combined Christmas season project of the Sigma Nu fraternity at Southern Utah University and Cedar City Pizza Hut and Wal-Mart stores.
A cooperative Sigma Nu and Pizza Hut campaign generated $2,169 for Christmas dinner and foodstuffs for 15 needy area families. The families were identified through the Wal-Mart "Angel Tree" project by members of the local clergy.
Sigma Nu members were responsible for promotion of pizza sales for a two-week period in November to raise the money. Pizza Hut agreed to rebate the fraternity $2 for every large pizza and $1 for every medium pizza sold during that period. All proceeds were earmarked for the Christmas project.
"We promoted a lot of pizza sales, and we bought quite a few ourselves," Sigma Nu President Brett Barton said.