CFC honors volunteers at breakfast

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  • By Mikayla Beyer
  • Hilltop Times Staff
HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah --  The Team Hill Combined Federal Campaign raised more than $962,000 in pledges and donations in 2012. A breakfast was held to honor and recognize the Hill CFC volunteers Dec. 18.

"Being part of the CFC and seeing all the hard work that goes on in the background to ensure all of the donations are properly processed and helping establish goals makes you realize the size of this campaign," said Scott Johnson, Team Hill 2012 CFC chairman.

The CFC exists for the purpose of soliciting federal employees for contributions to more than 3,000 eligible charities such as Habitat for Humanity and national and local ones, such as soup kitchens around Utah.

"Seeing the email from the general pushing the CFC made me and my buddy step up and decide to do it. We just went around talking to everybody and trying to gather donors," said Russell Cox, volunteer.

The CFC holds a fair to kick off the campaign and give its organizations a chance to promote themselves each year. The breakfast concludes the year's efforts during the holiday season.

"One of our key players behind the work of the CFC is actually a young man, and we like to see the young folks step out to support CFC. We've had a lot of people who retire at senior grades and have faithfully contributed to CFC for years and now, with the current state of the economy it is difficult to attract young donors. If they just learn by giving a couple of dollars at a time, when they reach the senior grades in their careers they'll be giving more than they realize. We appreciate everyone's efforts at the base," said Larry Lemon, who works with the Financial Management Directorate at Hill AFB.

The breakfast concluded with a speech from the incoming Team Hill 2013 Chairman Tom Randolph, and the presentation of plaques and medals to the volunteers who supported the 2012 Team Hill CFC Campaign.