Edition 8 Winter 2013 - York Regional Police

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Holiday Heroes 2012This year’s Holiday Heroes program was another resounding success. Commitment between our volunteers,auxiliaries, uniform and civilian members of YRP helped to support those in need in our community. Below isa thank you letter written by PC Kim Tanczos, coordinator of this year’s Holiday Heroes.DEAR VOLUNTEERS,We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the volunteers for participating in the 2012 HolidayHeroes campaign. Without your support our goals would not have been achieved.York Regional Police has been involved in the Holiday Heroes program since 1996 and has relied on thegenerosity of volunteers like you to help make holiday wishes come true.This past season, we surpassed previous campaign goals and were able to collect close to $30,000 inmonetary donations, more than an 84% increase over last year, and approximately $250,000 in toys toassist the Salvation Army, York Region Children’s Aid Society, and various shelters in the Region.Together our community assisted approximately 4,000 families throughout York Region in 2012.Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule and being away from your own family for thoseless fortunate than us. Your dedication to our community and our organization is a credit to York RegionalPolice.-PC Kim Tanczos
New Volunteer OrientationIn our continued effort to better educate and equip ourvolunteers, we have established a newly developed NewVolunteer Orientation for individuals sworn in as avolunteer in the past two years. The orientation willcover topics from our recently developed YRP VolunteerManual, and will also be an opportunity for volunteersfrom our various programs to meet and mingle with oneanother.The orientation will be held on Thursday, March 21,2013 and repeated on Saturday, March 23, 2013. Pleasenote that this orientation is only open to those who arenew volunteers.International Volunteer Week KickoffCommunity Partnerships is celebrating this year’sInternational Volunteer Week by hosting a day of workshopsdesigned to enhance our volunteers’ health and wellness, aswell as familiarizing volunteers with YRP’s daily operations.This day of workshops/ presentations will be in lieu of theannual Volunteer BBQ, and is scheduled for Saturday, April20, 2013 at Aurora High School. Lunch will be provided.We hope to see as many of you there as possible! This willbe a great opportunity to meet and network with otherfollow volunteers.Information on how to RSVP for the event will becommunicated to you via email. Please contact Deb or Alexif you have any questions about this event.
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