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<p>It&#8217;s one thing to know how well a fundraising campaign is going, but quite another to see it, which officials of the United Fund of Surry County had it mind when installing thermometer signs to chart the progress of their 2012-2013 campaign. It now stands at 70 percent of the $515,000 goal. Shown updating a thermometer at Reeves Community Center to highlight that fact, from left, are Walt Broom, the fund&#8217;s 2012 president; Beth Pequeno, United Fund executive director; and Steven McRae, 2012-2013 campaign chairman. Three thermometers are now in place at strategic locations in Mount Airy. Others were targeted for Dobson and Pilot Mountain.</p>

It’s one thing to know how well a fundraising campaign is going, but quite another to see it, which officials of the United Fund of Surry County had it mind when installing thermometer signs to chart the progress of their 2012-2013 campaign. It now stands at 70 percent of the $515,000 goal. Shown updating a thermometer at Reeves Community Center to highlight that fact, from left, are Walt Broom, the fund’s 2012 president; Beth Pequeno, United Fund executive director; and Steven McRae, 2012-2013 campaign chairman. Three thermometers are now in place at strategic locations in Mount Airy. Others were targeted for Dobson and Pilot Mountain.

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It’s one thing to know how well a fundraising campaign is going, but quite another to see it, which officials of the United Fund of Surry County had it mind when installing thermometer signs to chart the progress of their 2012-2013 campaign. It now stands at 70 percent of the $515,000 goal. Shown updating a thermometer at Reeves Community Center to highlight that fact, from left, are Walt Broom, the fund’s 2012 president; Beth Pequeno, United Fund executive director; and Steven McRae, 2012-2013 campaign chairman. Three thermometers are now in place at strategic locations in Mount Airy. Others were targeted for Dobson and Pilot Mountain.

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