YYC’s White Hat Volunteers

Our featured volunteer this month is Vivian Crandall, a 21-year veteran to the White Hat program, who volunteers Tuesdays from 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Vivian was born and raised in Edmonton until her job transferred her to Calgary in 1959. Since then, she has been an active member of the community and has volunteered for the Alberta Balle...

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Happy New Years from the White Hat Volunteers! January has been a very busy month with our first information session taking place just this past week. We are looking forward to having some new faces starting with us very soon. We are off to a great start for 2013 and we are very excited to see what the year will bring! Our featured Wh...

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As 2012 comes to a close, we reflect on some of the achievements of our White Hat Volunteers:  - Together, they contributed nearly 55,000 volunteer hours  - 60 new volunteers joined the team - They performed 309 White Hat Ceremonies with a total of 548 participants  - They had over 1.1 million personal interactions with...

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Laura Petrowitsch started volunteering at YYC June 23, 1995 She currently volunteers on Saturdays from 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. Laura is often seen at the top of the escalator in CBSA. Laura says, “I love assisting passengers, greeting them on their arrival in Canada. It is fun trying to keep up with using the Dutch and German languages wh...

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Barbara Millham has been a White Hat volunteer since May 2003. You can meet Barb on the Monday 2 pm - 6 pm shift. When asked why she volunteers at YYC, Barb says, "The airport is a large social network where passengers make connections- they reconnect, disconnect or seek new connections. We hatters, with smiles and empathy facilit...

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