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Local Charity Gives Fermilab Employees Recognition Award | ||
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The Batavia United Way/Community Chest Program, a non-profit organization that collects
donations and distributes them to local charities, held its annual meeting
in Batavia on September 15. The organization gave awards to the employees of
local groups and companies who donated part of their paychecks during
the past year, including many Fermilab employees. Elizabeth Clements of
Public Affairs accepted the award on Fermilab employees' behalf from the
Batavia United Way/Community Chest' board president Ed Tousana.
At the meeting, United Way/Community Chest announced that it exceeded its 2004 target of collecting $150,000 and kicked off a new year of fund-raising, with the same target. The fund helps 22 local agencies serving children, seniors and the disabled, and providing other community services.
Employees can donate to organizations such as United Way via voluntary payroll
deductions. Through the new on-line Employee Self-Serve system, Fermilab
employees can enroll or withdraw at any time on a month-to-month basis.
Previously, employees had to fill in a form and turn it in every year by
the end of November.
In recent years, Fermilab employees have donated up to $40,000 per year to about
80 different IRS-approved charities, according to Ron Pahl of Accounting.
Such deductions are tax deductible for those who itemize deductions in their
tax return, Pahl said.
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From Chicago Tribune, September 19, 2004 Teens catch rays for science Fermilab helps screen data from space PALOS HEIGHTS -- Two Shepard High School seniors are reaching for the stars, in a cosmic sense. John Hasier, 17, of Worth and Marshall Buroff, 16, of Palos Heights are measuring the number of cosmic rays that bombard the school's grounds. So far, the students have calibrated two tennis racket-shaped cosmic ray detectors that are wrapped in black paper and attached to a circuit board.
The detectors count rays and feed data into a computer program that analyzes and measures the rays, determining how much energy they have. The students send this data to a Web site for study by scientists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia. Fermi screens the data, throws out what's not needed and sends the good information back to the students, who work with it further.
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4th Annual Writing Contest Reminder Entries are welcome for Short Stories (between 500 to 5000 words), Short-short Stories (less than 500 words) and Poems (less than 50 lines). The winners will get cash prizes in the form of book store gift cards. The entry form and rules of the contest are available online. Send your entries along with a signed form by October 4 to Dinker Charak (MS 369). The results will be announced by Oct 31. The winning entries will be published in 'Lumina,' the Writer's Club online magazine.
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