Be BAD for a good cause

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Winnipeg Sun, Friday September 17, 2010
Reproduced with permission.

United Way launches 'Buck A Day' campaign

Oh yeah he's BAD, he's BAD (you know it), and he wants you to be BAD right along with him.

Talking about 2010 United Way campaign chair Gregg Hanson, who pulled up to this year's campaign launch Friday on a Harley, encouraging all Winnipeggers to "Be BAD." That's an acronym for "Buck a Day", a new UWay participation initiative urging' Peggers to give a buck a day to United Way! Good idea, and great fun for the campaign launch.

Along with the biker get-up, Gregg even had a tattoo with the words "BE BAD FOR GOOD" engraved on his bulging bicep for the gig. Looked pretty cool.

He also revealed through his Groucho-style painted-on moustache that this year's United Way team has already been very hard at work, having raised 38% of their very ambitious goal of $18,849,630, the amount surpassing last year's goal by $600,000!

The launch, which took place at Red River College's Stevenson Campus on Saskatchewan Avenue, also included the seventh annual Plane Pull, in which more than 40 teams vied for the fastest time pulling a commercial airplane a designated distance. I personally witnessed Groucho Hanson and his campaign team drag their plane the required distance in seven seconds or so, and was so exhausted (just from watching) I had to go for a nap.

Bully to all participants who pulled a plane Friday for United Way, winners all!

No question, giving to United Way is the best way to make Winnipeg a healthier, happier place for all of us. You know it.

To find out more about this year's campaign and how you can "Be BAD" (you naughty thing), go to unitedwaywinnipeg.mb.ca.

Listen to Laurie's interview with Campaign Chair Gregg Hason