Thank you to the 30,000+ commuters who participated in Wheel Options between March 8 - 21, 2009. Your commute choices are part of a collective solution for our managing congestion on our state's roadways and reducing our contribution to climate change.
Congratulations to our Grand Prize Winner! Lorene Yurak from the Kent School District has won $2,500 in CASH!
Pictured - left to right: Aaron Hanson (Lorene’s son), Lorene Yurak, and Faith Sisley (Kent School District’s Employee Transportation Coordinator).
Lorene was thrilled to win! She said that she is one of those people who never wins anything. She is so unlucky that she has even been to McDonalds when they ran out of hamburgers, Orange Julius when they ran out of orange juice, and the bank when they ran out of one-dollar bills! She was feeling pretty unlucky when her car broke down during the Wheel Options Campaign forcing her to find an alternative way to get to work. It looks like this time her luck has changed!
Lorene and her son Aaron, whom she is planning on sharing her winnings, carpooled during the spring campaign. She described the look on her son’s face when she told him she won the Grand Prize as absolutely PRICELESS! Lorene said carpooling is so much more fun than driving alone. She enjoyed carpooling with her son so much during Wheel Options that they are planning on continuing to carpool this summer. Congratulations Lorene!
Congratulations also go to our other prize winners:
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Weekend Getaway to Solstice Spa and Suites in Leavenworth ($500 value) - Bill Blake, City of Arlington
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$250 Tommy Bahama Gift Card, courtesy of Tommy Bahama - Deborah Chase, HDR Engineering, Bellevue
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$100 Fred Meyer Gift Card, courtesy of Amgen - Abbie Chalcraft, Alaska Airlines Inc. Airport Terminal, SeaTac
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$100 Home Depot Gift Card, courtesy of Anvil Corporation - Gordon Chalmers, Western Washington University, Bellingham
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$100 Boeing Store Gift Card, courtesy of the Boeing Company - Earl Hufnagel, Northwest Hospital, Seattle
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$100 Boeing Store Gift Card, courtesy of the Boeing Company - Lindsay Morris, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle
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$100 REI Gift Card, courtesy of CH2M Hill Bellevue - Jessica Auman, Milliman USA, Seattle
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$100 Barnes & Noble Gift Card, courtesy of CH2M Hill Bellingham - Jennifer Ponicsan, Attorney General of Washington - FAB, Seattle
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$100 Fred Meyer Gift Card, courtesy of the City of Redmond - Jeb Watts, Aerojet, Redmond
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$100 REI Gift Card, courtesy of the City of Redmond - John Gomez, City of Spokane - City Hall
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$100 Costco Gift Card, courtesy of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center - Bill Staffenhagen, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Everett
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$100 American Express Card, courtesy of Greater Redmond Transportation Management Association (GRTMA) - Alan Arnzen, City of Spokane - Public Safety
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$100 American Express Card, courtesy of Microsoft - William Stirling, Milliman USA, Seattle
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$100 American Express Card, courtesy of Microsoft - Laura Powell, Bellevue Dental Care
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$100 Target Gift Card, courtesy of Pemco - Collette Masias, Dept of Corrections - Headquarters, Tumwater
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$100 Target Gift Card, courtesy of Pemco - Lori Caldeira, Honeywell, Redmond
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$100 Visa Card, courtesy of Perkins Coie - Julie White, Travis Industries, Mukilteo
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$100 REI Gift Card, courtesy of Safeco Insurance - Edward Cox, Yakima County
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$100 VISA Gift Card, courtesy of SpaceLabs Health Care - Todd Hamilton, Attorney General of Washington - FAB, Seattle
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$100 REI Gift Card, courtesy of St. Joseph Hospital - Bellingham - Danielle Helgerson, N.W. Farm Credit Services, Spokane
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$100 VISA Gift Card, courtesy of Symetra Financial - Diane Kim, Deloitte & Touche LLP, Seattle
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$100 VISA Gift Card, courtesy of Symetra Financial - Glen McCarthy, Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill Campus, Seattle
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$100 Gift Card, courtesy of Unigard Insurance Company - Scott O'Connor, Next IT Corporation, Spokane
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$100 REI Gift Card, courtesy of Washington State Rideshare Organization (WSRO), Scott Beste, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond
Winners are subject to verification.