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'Volunteer Week planning By Stephen J . Beecroft Staff Writer Volunteer Week' will be from April 22 to 27, 1985. Plenty of time, you say? Dave Wilson, how-- ever, doesn't agree. Mr. Wilson took an annual event which has always been somewhat low-key and managed to turn it into a mammoth Volunteer Appreciation Day held at Stoney Creek Arena last spring. DOT OF PLANNING "A successful event involving a lot of organ- izations requires a lot of time and a lot of plan- ning," said Mr. Wilson at one of the committee meetings held earlier this year. He is obviously fol- lowing the same phil- osophy, for he chaired a meeting held at Stoney Creek Library on Oct. 29 to make plans for the Volunteer Appreciation Day to be held next April. Mr. Wilson quoted some statistics which he had gleaned from a 1979- 80 Labor Force Study on volunteer labor by Sta- tistics Canada. In the year ending Februry, 1980, 2.7 mil- lion Canadians worked as volunteers (15 per cent of the adult popula- tion), which resulted in a total of 373,991,000 hours, said Mr. Wilson. This number of hours would be equivalent to 213,000 people working 40-hour weeks for a full year, he said. 137 HOURS PER PERSON As the average num-- ber of hours worked was 137 per person, if the volunteers had been paid at the average in- dustrial wage they would have earned a total of $3.5 billion. Fifty-me per cent of the volunteers were fe- male; 49 per cent of them were male, said Mr. Wilson. "I want to express my appreciation to all the volunteers for their ef- forts throughout the past year and for their work on this commit- tee," he said. "I enjoy seeingypeople working together to benefit the whole com- munity. We have a great' spirit within our com- munity here in Stoney Creek -- and I would like to see it grow lar- ger." ,Mr. Wilson, who is also campaign chair- man for the Stoney Creek Cancer Society, was reelected chairman of Volunteer Week. Other members of the executive include Jen- nie Pyc (vicechairman and entertainment chairman also repre- senting Opti-Mrs. of Sto-- ney Creek), Edna Miller (secretary), Mary McKenzie (publicity chairman and also representing Stoney Creek Community In- formation Centre), Derek Humphrey (foods chairman), Vickie Veber (phone commit- tee co--ordinator, also representing Stoney Creek Co-op Preschool), Norm Felker (phone committee coordinator, also representing Sto- ney Creek Lions Club), treasurer Jan Clark (treasurer, also repre- senting Tough Love). other community vol- unteers present at the meeting included Louise Trafford (Pine Villa Nursing Home), Anne Grant (New Village re- tirement Home), Betty Jefferson (Erland Lee Home), Neil White (Winona Seniors), Ron Simpson (Stoney Creek Horticultural Society), Rosemary MacLean '(Saltfleet Women's Hockey), Bill Harrison (Stoney Creek Scout- ing), Ann B. Elliott (Stoney Creek Guiding), John Vernon (Legion Battlefield Branch 622), Edna Page, Eva Reid, Ethel Fairhurst, Sid Fairhurst (Historic Chapter 0.E.S.), Art Ward (Stoney Creek Stamp Club), Dennis Maguire (Stoney Creek Men's Club) and Joe Rosati (East Hamilton - Stoney Creek Health As- anniafinn). f'