Earth Day 2010 - Coastal Clean Up - McDonald's Northern Goes Green!

Some 2,800 volunteers fanned out along the 5.7km stretch of Gurney Drive, Tanjung Bungah and Batu Ferringhi from 7am yesterday to collect the garbage in an event held in conjunction with Earth Day. McDonald's were also represented by 60 volunteers from 3 states. Perak, Penand & Kedah!

All members were gathered for a briefing as early as 6.30am. We were divided in groups to comb the beach. Our McD managed to collect about 26Kg of rubbish. Can you imagine!? The rubbish were sorted out and analyze too.

According to data released by Universiti Sains Malaysia marine and coastal studies centre researchers later, 5.7 tonnes of garbage were collected from Gurney Drive (including the refrigerator and tyre found strewn on the rocks), 0.3 tonnes from Batu Ferringhi and 0.4 tonnes from Tanjung Bungah. More than 48,000 items were in the entire pile of garbage.

McD sponsered some 600 Chicken Burger for the volunteers too!

Anyway, well done to the Northern Dream Team for another successful effort in championing green initiatives :)

Say NO to Plastic Bags

Thanks Sarah !

Most importantly, 3 Cheers and Thank You to Daniel for gracing this occasion, fielding the tough questions, promoting new coffee and new paper coffee cups plus (a bonus to us here) honouring us with the presence of a member of the prestigious SMM at our FAF monthly prize presentation celebration ! The winner for March is Pg Airport store and Dan was flying off from the same airport so, we had a special guest to wow the winning store !

Thanks also to Jun and Tini for your hard work and follow-up in the weeks and days leading up to today's event.

And of course, last but never least, saving the Best for last is a resounding "Syabas !" to my NDT, the one and only Northern Dream Team !

Thank you Lay Yong for hosting this event in such a grand manner and Thank You to each and every single member of NDT (Tina,Soo Cheng,OCs,SMs, CSMs, Stars, Greenlane's management team and crew) who came in full force to help and support us today.

We couldn't have done it without any one of you so once again, Thank You for an outstanding job done !

Let's Go Northern ... Go,Fight,WIN !

Best Regards,

Melanie

Earth Hour 2010

EARTH HOUR 2010


On March 27, Saturday from 8.30om to 9.30pm, McDonald's was pledge support for EARTH HOUR by reducing energy in ALL our restaurant. We switched off ALL NON-ESSENTIAL and dimming lights.This is part of a global eco-friendly initiative to build awareness of the important of saving energy in the community.



Leonard-CCD was in McDonald's Greenlane for support and also taking photos and video shot.



It's was amazing from 8.30am count down light off until 9.30am getting back to brightness world!!! Everything was in good control...

Jamuan Makan Di McDonald's Caltex-Sekolah Anak Yatim Che Bema.

Pada 19/2/2010 pukul 5pm,kami telah menerima kunjungan dari sekolah anak-anak yatim Che Bema dari Sungai Petani,Kedah.Seramai 19 kanak-kanak antara umur 10 tahun sehingga 15 tahun telah datang untuk diraikan oleh 'BAKAT' (Badan Kebajikan Angkatan Tentera Malaysia) yang diketuai oleh Pengerusi Datin Samsiah bte Abdul Samad isteri kepada Mejar Jeneral Dato' Mohd Noor bin Daud Panglima Tentera 2 Divisyen.Mereka menjamu selera dengan Medim set Big Mac dan Sundae.Kanak-kanak ini amat gembira kerana dapat bersama-sama meraikan jamuan makan di McDonald.

Berbuka Puasa with Anak-Anak Yatim Kepala Batas

Hello Everybody, Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri Maaf Zahir dan Batin to all McDonald's Malaysia Family members.

Once again, Mcd Juru had a chance to do an event that we can share with all. And this time, the event is a community one. As we had a chance to do some charity with Rumah anak-anak yatim Kepala Batas on 09092009.

We had 12o kids from the home to share this evening of fun and joy as we berbuka puasa together with them at Tunas Bakti community hall. We were represented by 10 of our very own volunteers from McD Juru Dt. From crew, Star, CSM and not to mentioned Managers too.

Last but least, we would like to mention our special thanks to McDonald's for giving back to the community.!

McDonald's Boleh!

Community Event - RMHC M'sia

In the midst of the bleak weather and the prospects of being away from home, RMHC Malaysia with the help of the McDonald's Star Parade outlet recently brought cheer to the Kedah flood victims, especially children.

Azemah, our dear OC for the Kedah stores led a team of volunteers to the flood relief centre at Sekolah Kebangsaan Gunung Keriang on Sunday 26th October 2008 to distribute McDonald's meals of McNuggets, French Fries and drinks to 250 children that made the school their temporary home. We also donated some mattresses on the store's own initiative.

A special THANK YOU to Azemah and her wonderful team for all the help rendered - you guys have done a great job!

CEC Program - McD Caltex Sunway

On a bright & sunny morning (today), 11 cars and 4 motorcycles headed to the Sekolah Sinar Harapan located at Jalan Permatang Rawa Satu (Bukit Mertajam).

With a very enthusiastic team of 24 people from 5 stores, we were looking forward to bringing some fun and Raya cheer to the under-privileged children of this school.

This event was organized under the C.E.C program (Elena's mini market) but for the first time, we made this a community event as well.

With this in mind, we roped in all 5 Prai stores to participate in the program:

#116 Megamal Pinang,#125 Carrefour Prai,#174 Juru DT,#181 Caltex Sunway and #227 Jusco Seberang Prai City

All SMs supported by their Managers,CSMs,Star and Crew came to give their raving support. Even Kartina came to give a helping hand. Everyone was in high spirits and had fun bringing joy to the under-privileged children.

Sekolah Sinar Harapan is managed by a voluntary N.G.O body and the Persatuan Kebajikan Kanak-Kanak Terencat Akal Seberang Prai Tengah. The school mostly relies on donations from the public and the private sector companies even though it does receive a small annual grant from the Welfare Department.

The school was established on 6.1.86, with humble beginnings – using a converted car garage as its first venue. It only moved in to the current address in 1.6.00.
Presently it has 72 students, with age ranging from 1 – 21 years of all races/both sexes.
The school operates from 8:30am – 12:30pm (Mon-Fri).
These children suffer from various types of mild to moderate degrees of mental handicap (Down Syndrome/retarded/mentally challenged).

The school’s aim is to help these special children achieve independence (self reliance) and to lead an active life in society.

The school’s principal En. Mohamad Zubir Zabidi gave a welcome speech and thanked us for the visit, the contribution and time spent with the children. A lovely joget dance was performed by 6 children.

During ‘makan’ time, everyone had fun laughing and feeding or even just sitting down with them. It was during this time that we found out that Mgr Khairul #181 actually had a ‘fanatic fan’ from a lovely child named Adila - she called Khairul ‘Mawi’!

Later, goody bags and balloons were distributed to the children – this certainly brought more smiles from them! Hamburglar, Birdie and Grimace made special appearances as well.

Soon, it was time for us to leave. It was a sad feeling for some of us but we were glad though, that McDonald’s brought some fun and laughter to these children this morning.

And as we walked to our cars, we reminded ourselves to always be grateful for what we have.

And yes, we felt that “warm,fuzzy,good feeling” in our hearts, for having been part of this splendid C.E.C community program!

Written by Kartina Ramli
14th Oct 2008

Lay Yong: “We should feel grateful with what we own, show loving care and help under-privileged kids.”

National Day Parade

Well, well, well, for the very first time in Northern's history, we took part in the State Merdeka Celebrations! Our very own contingent led by Safna (#174),Zul Jerung (#21) and our proud flag bearers ... Ilme #219 Melvin #25 and Jason #158. Check out our very own contingent proudly marching past the VVIP Grandstand waving to His Excellency Yang di-Pertua Negri of Penang Tun Dato' Seri Utama (Dr.) Haji Abdul Rahman B. Haji Abbas, his consort Toh Puan Majimor Shariff, Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng,several elected representatives and their spouses.

News Report (but did not feature us lah ... we are among the private sector organizations mentioned anyway hehe) Here's another News article - enjoy! But our photos better leh ;)