Team Pavlik to staff phones at UW event
Kelly Pavlik is making some donations for the event.
YOUNGSTOWN — Members of Team Pavlik will help staff the phones during the United Way Rally for the Valley telethon, which will be broadcast live on WYTV from 8 to 10 tonight.
The telethon is the culmination of a daylong business blitz and phone-a-thon, which will take place from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. throughout the five-county area.
The United Ways of Mahoning, Trumbull, and Northern Columbiana counties in Ohio, and Mercer and Lawrence counties in western Pennsylvania, are conducting the event in an effort to wrap up their 2007 campaigns.
Collectively, the five United Ways have raised $4,961,599, or 75 percent of their combined $6.6 million goal, said JoAnn Stock, Youngstown/Mahoning Valley United Way director of marketing and resource development, and coordinator of the five-county effort.
All pledges received during the day will be announced from 8 to 10 p.m. on WYTV-Channel 33. Every 30 minutes during the telethon, prize packages will be raffled off to donors who give at various levels.
All donors who contribute a gift of $100 will be entered into a drawing for a number of great prizes including two tickets to Super Bowl XLII on Feb. 3 in Phoenix, Ariz., or two tickets to the Ohio State vs. Michigan football game Nov. 22 in Columbus.
In addition, Kelly Pavlik, the middleweight boxing champion, is donating 20 personally autographed photographs along with a pair of boxing gloves, one autographed by Pavlik, the other autographed by his trainer Jack Loew, to be added to the prize list for the telethon, Stock said.