Slug-A-Bug Employees Participate in Scavenger Hunt and Charity Drive

The project was the brainchild of Elliot Zace, operations manager for Slug-A-Bug, who was seeking a way to further promote one of the company’s core values: "Caring for our Community and our Environment."

 

“We do a tremendous amount of community work and fund numerous charity organizations. But we've never done anything like this before,” Zace said.

 

The fundraiser involved teaming up employees for fun competitions. Teams were picked at random, each team had a mix of administration, pest control and lawn technicians, along with termite and sales. Each item team members collected was worth a certain amount of points; some items, such as the charity items needed for Nana's House, were worth unlimited points. 

 

For the scavenger hunt, teams searched for different insects, weeds and rodent entry points, to name a few, along with some fun items to find and submit. “This was to get every employee engaged and learning and finding things that otherwise they would not know due to the nature of their jobs,” Zace said. “So everyone learned and supported and encouraged one another in different departments.”

 

For the charity portion, employees donated the following: 582 boxes of food, 781 canned goods, 20 bottles of dishwashing detergent, 37 tubes of bleach wipes, 98 bottles of shampoo and conditioner, 27 boxes of band aids, 41 deodorants, 98 hand soap, 17 boxes of trash bags, 2244 rolls of toilet paper, 62 packs of diapers. These were items that we were listed on Nana's House website, the winning team was awarded a choice of prizes such as a 32-inch TV, Keurig, Ninja Blender, Offshore Fishing and a few others. “We brought in a volunteer from Nana's House and surprised them with what we had done for them,” Zace said. “It took three hours to box everything up and almost two hours to unload it at their location.”