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The Fourth Annual Mayors’ Dinner – Milo Shantz

By Joe Mancini

Published in June 1991

The Fourth Annual Mayor’s Dinner once again brought together over 700 people. This annual fundraising event for The Working Centre highlights the accomplishments of citizens who have made outstanding contributions to the Kitchener-Waterloo area. The Working Centre researched possible guests to honour at The Mayor’s Dinner and we came to learn about the many accomplishments of Milo Shantz.

In this issue of our newsletter, The Working Centre has chosen to highlight the work of Milo Shantz as part of our continuing exploration of workplace values in the 1990’s. This is the story of a man who has applied the values of farm life to business development and has created many business success stories.

Milo Shantz and his business team have applied a number of innovative strategies to enhance business development for private enterprises and non-profit ventures. These strategies include:

• entrepreneurship and risk

• employee-ownership

• profit sharing

• community business and heritage development

• local economic self-reliance.

The Fourth Annual Mayor’s Dinner combined a fine dinner by Kitchener Caterers, a live auction, the best in Canadian comic entertainment by Bill Carr, and a tribute to Milo Shantz. Over $26,000 was raised to support The Working Centre and St. John’s Kitchen.

Good Work News is The Working Centre’s quarterly newspaper that reports on our latest community building efforts and seeks out ideas which redefine work, consumerism, and sustainable living. First published in 1984, we have now published over 150 issues with a circulation of 13,000.

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This approach makes relationships more natural and support more accessible. Workers from different agencies are easily approachable, meaning that people build relationships with multiple workers. Having relationships with different workers is important to a person’s support – it makes support from a trusted source easy to find, and means that people have a choice of worker to approach in any given situation.

In order to maintain a circle of care around a person, workers from different agencies ask for consent from the person for information to be shared between workers. Continuous communication between workers helps to ensure that people do not fall into gaps between services, and also that services are not duplicated.

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