Crest Ink - Volume 34 - Number 04

Smiling is Our Favorite: Christmas at Crest by Gaven Meiners There was no shortage of smiles this Christmas Season. Crest Employees spread Christmas cheer and sang loud for all to hear. In the weeks leading up to Christmas many employees participated in some festive fun. 12/1 – Tees the Season (Wear a holiday T-Shirt) 12/8 – Deck the Halls (Wear a festive holiday sweater, shirt or vest) 12/15 – Sassy Stock ings (Holiday sock Friday, wear fun holiday socks) 12/19 – Merry Monday (Wear Red, White and Green) 12/22 (Twas the night before Christmas (Wear your favorite holiday PJ pants) Following all GMP’s of course, Crest em- ployees reminded us it’s ok to be silly and have fun at work. Who doesn’t smile after winning cash and prizes? 13 Crest employees won a variety of items throughout December. Several $1,000 Cash prices, Cubs tickets, $500 gifts cards, a TV and the grand finale prize of a car! Speaking of Cash, every Crest employee got a little extra Bonus in their stocking this year. Hopefully it helped cover some of the inflated costs we all see this time of year. We can’t think of anyone needing a smile more than those in the area with little or no family to celebrate with; so Crest employees volunteered to buy gifts for about 70 residents at 2 local nursing homes, Jack Mabley Center, Vil- lage of Progress, and Kreider Services. Employees also filled out 800 Christmas cards, going to those same organi zations. Thank you to those volunteers, what you did made a difference to these groups this Christmas. You may have not known it, but Crest employees were going to make you smile at Ace Hardware this Holiday sea- son! We bundled up and braved freezing temps, we strapped on our guitars to sing songs, dressed up as Santa and even Ralphie from the Christmas story made an appearance. Crest employees spent 27 hours ringing the bell for the Salvation Army Red Kettle program this year. Lots of Fun for a great cause. Smiling is contagious, and after a COVID break, we got to celebrate the season at our traditional Christmas dinners. We had 10 different dinners over two days for about 600 employees! The food was amazing and we all got to listen and laugh at Jeff Meiners, some us thought he was funny, some of us laughed at him, but we all smiled and it was great to get back together again. This time of year we always celebrate those employees reaching significant employment milestones. This year we had 8 people reaching 20 year status, 6 reaching 30 year status, and record breaking 4 employees reaching 40 year status! We are humbled and thankful for these people calling Crest their work home for all these years. If you can smile at work you can smile at home, it’s just the same. All Crest employees got 4 paid off days to spend time with friends and family. It was a Merry Crestmas indeed, now let’s keep those smiles going into the new year!

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