This year’s United Way campaign goal has special significance ó and that couldn’t make the agency and its volunteers happier.
The goal is to raise $1,776,000.
The original amount was $1,773,000, but longtime donor and supporter Ralph Ketner upped the ante.
Ketner recommended a goal incorporating “1776” because the number was easy to remember ó the year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
That would require $3,000 more, the United Way’s Jackie Harris told Ketner.
“OK,” Ketner recalls saying. “You talked me into it.”
Alan King is chairman for the 2009 campaign.
“This has always been a community of caring and wanting to help one another,” King says. “Even during tough and difficult times, I’m optimistic we can achieve our goal.”
See Saturday’s Post for coverage of tonight’s kickoff for the 2009 United Way campaign and Sunday’s Post for more on the campaign.