Published September 28, 2011 by Adelaide Z
Vigilant Futures employee in 2010 Raise-a-Reader day.
Employees of Vigilant Futures are giving up their lunch hour and then some today to help sell a special edition of The Montreal Gazette through the downtown streets of our fair city. Why? Today is Raise-a-Reader day in Canada.
Our employees raised just over $2700 in our annual auction held in August with all proceeds going to Raise-a-Reader and Vigilant Futures added another $2000 as a corporate sponsor. We’ll be collecting donations for a few hours in the busy downtown core of the city in exchange for a special edition of The Gazette.
Each year, Postmedia collects funds through corporate and individual donations it then redistributes among Canadian organizations that have family literacy programs. All the money collected stays in the community it was raised in.
To date, the initiative has generated $17 million since its national launch in 2002. Last year Vigilant Futures employees raised just over $4400 for the cause and the company donated $2000 as a local sponsor. Montrealers donated $46, 303 for literacy in 2010.
Vigilant Futures donate lunch hour to collect donations.
Published September 26, 2011 by Adelaide Z
It was an exceptionally warm and humid early autumn day in Montreal yesterday, and it just happened to be the annual 42 KM Montreal Oasis marathon. As usual, parts of the city were closed to traffic to let the runners through. Four members of the Vigilant Run Club registered to run the half marathon and today a few of them are a little more sore than your typical Monday morning.
Our very own 5* Athlete – an occasional Vigilant blogger – finished with the best Vigilante time of 1h 45mins, but the others did really well too. They looked as good yesterday as they did last week running the marathon in their matching Vigilant jerseys.
Members of the Vigilant Futures run club at the Montreal marathon
For full results, you can click on this link: http://www.sportstats.ca/display-results.php?lang=eng&racecode=100979 .
You can find a photo diary of the race on the Vigilant Futures Flickr feed thanks to another blogger – Mighty Joe! http://www.flickr.com/photos/vigilantfutures/sets/72157627757166432/
Published September 20, 2011 by Adelaide Z
So for the past few months – each Wednesday – about six to eight Vigilantes meet in the lobby after work and jog through the streets of Montreal. The purpose: train for the Montreal Oasis Marathon.
In the lead up to the big event (which happens to be this coming weekend), some members of the Run Club donned a new Vigilant team jersey and oh-so-lovely and stylish head lamps to run the Energizer Night Race on Parc Jean Drapeau. Some got to the park more prepared than others with healthy snacks and drinks.
You can check out the race results for yourself at http://www.sportstats.ca/display-results.php?lang=eng&racecode=100032 .
If you want to see the Vigilantes in action and in the dark with their great Vigilant gear, check out the rest of the photos at Vigilant Futures Flickr photostream.
Vigilant Run Club
