Yellow-Ribbon Campaign For Military Families Comes Untied

Sean Burnand and his staff volunteered time over the weekend to make the first run of 5,000 'Support our Troops' stickers. (Can West Label Inc.) "This was a simple offer that we made to the city thinking that the city has thousands of vehicles on streets. But we're going to find a way to get these ribbons out there to private citizens and to corporations, with or without council's help on this." On Monday, council unanimously approved a plan by Mayor Dave Bronconnier to keep the stickers off city vehicles and instead sell them to the public to raise cash for military families. "Why don't we take those decals and place them in city facilities, and people could go and take those decals and put a five- and 10-dollar donation, and raise another $50,000 to do something meaningful?" he said. But by selling the decals, city hall is missing the point, said Burnand, whose staff volunteered time over the weekend to help him make the first run of 5,000 decals. 'This is just about saying thank you' Ald. Ric McIvor argued that putting yellow-ribbon stickers on city cars and trucks is a simple way to show public support for Canada's military. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2007/07/24/troops-stickers.html

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