Employees Make A Difference October 2004

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Employees Make A Difference
-- DAS Office of Employee Services, October 2004

Recent donations from DAS employees were a welcome comfort to Columbus area homeless individuals seeking a warm blanket.

Take it to the Streets Foundation, an organization serving the Columbus homeless population, had run out of blankets a few days before a van pulled up carrying blankets donated by DAS employees as part of the department’s Make a Difference Day campaign.

Make a Difference Day, the largest national day of helping others, was officially held Saturday, Oct. 23.

In addition to the blankets, employees also donated toiletries and tarps to Take it to the Streets and linens and toiletries to Choices, a local organization that assists victims of domestic violence.

Thanks goes to the following employees for their donations: Lisa Barbee, Jane Baughn, Joyce Craddock, Terry Crawford, Deb Davis, Therese Gallego, Mark Hutchison, Jane Kuzma, Ross Leider, Rosanna Muse, Susan Myers, Ron Remy, Lana Salyers, Jessie Scott, Carole Snyder and Vickie Yarborough.

The co-chairpersons of the Ohio campaign were First Lady Hope Taft and Ohio State University football coach Jim Tressel. The DAS campaign was overseen by Jane Baughn of the Office of Employee Services with assistance from Cindi Bailey and Linda Arbuiso of the Office of Information Technology’s Service Delivery Division and Rosanna Muse of the General Services Division

Displaying donations from DAS employees are Elizabeth Topolski (left), development director of Choices, an organization assisting victims of domestic violence, and Jane Baughn of the DAS Office of Employee Services.

DAS employee donations

Carrying some of the blankets donated by DAS employees to Take it to the Streets are Rhonda Martin-Cage (left), the director of the organization founded by her parents, and volunteer Terry Pursley.