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Nine weeks into the campaign, the United Way has raised $2.9 million, or 71 per cent Things are looking good for the United Way of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo and Area as it enters the final stretch of its annual fundraising campaign. But, as they say at the ball park, it ain‘t over ‘til it‘s over. and just for showing up Sunday, every J,j) customer 3 receives a jr:\lg"’ Deborah Crandall Chronicle Staff PAGE 12 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1994 s«20%.50* OPEN SUNDAYS United Way‘s ready for a fight to the finish BOâ€"DE _Even Scrooge is happy we are now WA TERLOO LOCATION ONL Y WE‘RE MOVING Gallery Indigena will he opening year round at its Stratford location. 151 Downie Street 1â€"271â€"7881 Until DEC. 23 at 24 Dupont St. E., Waterioo 12 â€" 5 pm til Christmas excepi consignment art) 888â€"7475 OFF "We‘ve got more money in than last year at this time, which is good," Way said. "Howâ€" of its goal of $4.1 million. Last year at this time, the campaign had raised $2.4 million, or 61 per cent of goal. With only nine days left in the campaign, however, it‘s going to be a fight to the finish to raise the remaining $1.2 million, said United Way volunteer campaign chair Rob Way. VALUE PRICED AT YOUR CHEVROLET GEO + OLDSMOBILE STORE LOOK...NO SMALL PRINT ever, it doesn‘t mean we‘re going to meet the $4.1 million goal because it depends on how hard you push to get the actually dollars in once a (workplace) campaign has been comâ€" pleted. It‘s that last $1.2 million that‘s the hardest to get. So I kind of add an asterisk when I say it‘s going well. We have a lot of work to do in the next (nine) days, and the last thing I want to do is have people say, ‘Wow, they have more money than they did last year. I don‘t need to give‘." Comparing this year‘s campaign to last year‘s isn‘t an accurate comparison anyway, Way added, considering last year‘s camâ€" paign â€" due to the lingering recession, plant closures and company downâ€"sizings â€" sufâ€" fered to the point that it had to be extended into January, and even then came up $200,000 short of its goal. (Continued on page 44)