Western Union sponsors Ukrainian events (07/30/00)

Western Union sponsors Ukrainian events

Western Union Money Transfer was one of the main sponsors this year of the Ukrainian Diaspora Olympiad in the Philadelphia area on July 1-4, as well as the Ukrainian street fair in New York City on May 19-20 and many other Ukrainian initiatives, including the Verkhovyna Youth Festival held on July 14-16 in Glen Spey, N.Y., which the company supported for the third year in a row. The Verkhovyna Festival featured a screening of a documentary film about Viktor Petrenko, Ukraine's 1992 Olympic gold medalist in men's figure skating. Mr. Petrenko is a Western Union spokesperson and the screening was organized by the company's representatives. During the Olympiad, Western Union distributed gifts and information about its services. The most popular freebies among the public were water bottles, T-shirts, bandannas and straw hats, all with Western Union's yellow logo. Seen in the photo above at Western Union's booth at the Olympiad is Ukraine's Vice Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs Mykola Zhulynskyi (center) with Olga Sakiewicz of the InterAccess advertising agency and Igor Shunda, a Western Union agent with the Dnipro Co.

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