Six managers at Gateway Resources started off May 14 with pie on their faces, much to the delight of the Winkler facility’s staff and program participants.
Gateway Resources staff got the chance to hit their managers with a chocolate cream pie last week as a reward for raising $700 for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Pembina Valley
Department heads Tim Hamp, Chelsey Delaquis, Kyla Scott, Erin Peters, and Deb Korne along with CEO Kim Nelson gamely lined up that morning to let a randomly selected employee hit them in the face with a chocolate cream pie as a reward for successfully collecting $700 in pledges for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Pembina Valley.
It all goes back to this year’s Bowl for Kids’ Sake fundraiser back in March, shared Delaquis, where Gateway was invited to send teams to help fill a few empty lanes.
“This started out as a competition between myself and one other manager. We said if we got to a certain amount [in pledges for Big Bros] then whoever lost in our game would get a pie in the face.”
It quickly expanded from there to rope in other departments, with fundraising goals set to get more pie victims involved, all the way up to Gateway’s CEO.
“It’s been a lot of fun,” Delaquis said, noting the friendly competition saw donations pour in so staff could see their supervisors take part.
For her part, Nelson observed the $700 goal to get her involved was set in haste—she perhaps should have made that number a little higher, she reflected, wiping chocolate off her face.
“I set it very last minute thinking they would not get it,” she said, laughing. “I was fairly confident with only a few hours left to go that they were not going to be able to reach me. I was wrong.”
Both Nelson and Delaquis came prepared with goggles, while other participants donned shower caps, though the protection could only do so much—their faces were covered with whipped cream and chocolate, much to the delight of onlookers.
