Union Gas Summit Award Donated to TBRHSF

On May 21, 2008 Spectra Energy, the parent company of Union Gas Limited, selected the 2008 recipients of its prestigious Summit Award, an annual, company-wide program established to acknowledge extraordinary individual and team accomplishments by Spectra Energy employees and contractors.

Nominated by coworkers and selected by a committee of peers from different areas of the company, award recipients must demonstrate more than success or achievement; their efforts must epitomize Spectra Energy’s “charter values.” As such, honorees are recognized for their outstanding achievement and visionary thinking in the areas of Safety, Stewardship, Integrity, Respect for the Individual, Initiative, High Performance and Win-Win Relationships.

In keeping with the company’s commitment to the communities it serves, Summit Award recipients are presented with a $5,000 check to be donated to non-profit organizations of their choosing.

One of this year’s five recipients is Union Gas employee Nanda Claydon, of Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Nanda Claydon turned giving back to the community into a teambuilding venture that has swept the company. She started by organizing a team at the Union Gas Contact Center in Thunder Bay, Canada, to create fleece blankets and shawls to sell in support of United Way. Then, she turned to making pink shawls for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Her team made 50 pink shawls and donated them to the Northern Cancer Research Foundation in Thunder Bay. The success of the project led Claydon to launch “Pass the Pink Torch,” encouraging other company offices to form teams to make pink shawls for their local cancer societies. The Pink Torch has since passed to offices in North Bay, Kingston, Brantford, Chatham, Calgary and Vancouver, and these offices continue to challenge other locations. Claydon will donate her $5,000 prize to the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation.

Nanda Claydon Backgrounder

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