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solved. Lisa Henry 519-357-6631
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PAGE 14. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2006.
Grey firefighter calendars are going fast
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
This Christmas is your last chance
to pick up a 2007 Grey firefighter
calendar.
The calendar started as a project
for the department's 50th
anniversary and an idea to
fundraiser for some new equipment.
Five hundred of them were printed
and having been in stores since
June, now there is less than a fifth of
them still available fofpurchase.
"They just wanted a different
fundraiser and they thought about an
idea that us ladks had tossed around
for years, which was doing a
calendar," says Dianne Diehl, the
calendar's photographer and Grey
deputy chief David Diehl's wife.
"They didn't want it to be a
serious calendar, they wanted it to
be funny, candid shots."
There isn't much skin to bd seen
in the calendar, which would have
been in the true history of a
firefighter calendar, but there was a
split view on that.
"Some of them I think would have
been game to show some skin, but
some of them didn't want to reveal
too much either," says Diehl.
The idea for a calendar was
spearheaded by firefighter Pete
Albers, 'who pulled many of the
strings to make this idea a reality.
Albers and the rest of the
department went to businesses all
throughout Grey asking for a
donation of $100 from each, with
great success, garnering almost
enough . from donations
alone to cover the
costs.
Albers
said
that at
a print
cost of
$ 3 , 2 0 0 ,
they had
donations
f r o m
approximately
30 businesses,
coming close to
recouping costs with
donations alone,
leaving income from
sales to be almost 100
per cent profit.
This partnership worked
out well for all involved. All
the businesses who donated carried
the calendar for sale at a price of $10
each.
Over 30 Grey businesses were
approached. They were happy to
contribute $100 to the cause, Albers
said.
The funds will all go back into the
Grey department and they hope to
be spending the money on
equipment, however the
final decision has not yet
been made.
"We were thinking to
raise money for some
equipment. The
committee hasn't
come together to
discuss exactly
what," Albers
said.
"It's still
up in the
air as to
what
we're
going
to use
[the
money] for."
Grey Fire chief
Calvin Semple agrees, but
says that the decision as to where
the money will go should be
finalized within the next few
months.
"There's a few things up in the air
that we're thinking about and when
that time comes
we'll let somebody
know about it. It'll
be for equipment
though that's for
sure," Semple said.
Semple says he is
happy with his
department at how
hard and fast they
worked to get the
calendar done and sees
no reason why they can't
make another one again
soon which he thinks will be
even better.
"They took the bull by the
horns and put everything together in
a hurry," Semple said. • -
"I think we would do it again. I
mean, the community and the
businesses
we approached in
our area were very
supportive and it's a good little
community thing, because the guys
are from the community themselves.
It makes for a
good little
keepsake for
one thing."
Albers
says he's
happy with
how things
turned out
and that once
the calendars
are gone, he will
be a happy man.
"They're 2007 calendars
and we started selling them in June
for Grey's 150th anniversary and we
sold a bunch of them then," Albers
said.
" We'll just sell the calendars until
they're gone and then we'll be
happy."