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Safeco Insurance® Community Hero Award

Safeco Insurance® recognizes Terri Mlotek as a Community Hero, donates $5,000 to Midwest Palliative & Hospice Care Center

 

Vote in online contest to help Midwest Palliative & Hospice Care Center get up to $10,000 more

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Skokie, IL (Oct. 14, 2013) — Help Terri Mlotek win $10,000 for Midwest Palliative & Hospice Care Center in the “Vote for your favorite Safeco Insurance® Community Hero” event.

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Terri Mlotek is one of just 16 Community Hero Award winners selected from across the country by Safeco Insurance to be in the contest. Your support could help her come out on top in an online voting event that will give $10,000 or $5,000 to the charities represented by the top three heroes with the most votes.

  

Safeco Insurance already has donated $5,000 to Midwest Palliative & Hospice Care Center on behalf of Heil & Heil Insurance Agency LLC in Skokie, who nominated Terri Mlotek for the award.

 

“Terri Mlotek makes our community better and inspires others to get involved,” said Allan Schroeder, President, C.O.O. of Heil & Heil Insurance.

 

Safeco Insurance Community Hero Awards honor hometown heroes and nonprofit organizations that have a positive impact in education, health and safety, or civic engagement, and the award program supports the community involvement of independent insurance agents across the country.

 

The Vote for your favorite Safeco Insurance Community Hero event ends 10 a.m. PST Nov. 4. To participate, click on the Safeco Community Hero ad on the home page of www.Safeco.com or click on the Community Hero tab on the Safeco Insurance Facebook.

 

Midwest Palliative & Hospice CareCenter, which provides care in the Chicago area, was one of the first 50 hospice providers in the United States. Since its inception, the nonprofit community-based organization has provided support to thousands of individuals and families in the Chicago area each year.

 

Terri Mlotek knows first-hand how important this support is, as she’s been volunteering for the organization for the past two years. She takes time during her lunch to visit hospice patients who need companionship during their final days, giving them presence, touch and a caring ear.

 

“It has been an honor for me to assist these wonderful individuals,” Mlotek says. “I am humbled by it. And I do feel more people are needed.” She has seen seven patients to date, including one for more than four months.

 

Get involved

To learn more about how you can support Midwest Palliative & Hospice Care Center, please visit www.carecenter.org.

 

About Safeco Insurance

In business since 1923 and based in Boston, Mass., Safeco Insurance sells personal automobile, homeowners and specialty products through a network of more than 10,000 independent insurance agencies throughout the United States. Safeco is a Liberty Mutual Insurance company.

 

Boston-based Liberty Mutual Insurance is a diversified global insurer and the third largest property and casualty insurer in the U.S. based on 2012 direct premiums written as reported by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Liberty Mutual Insurance also ranks 81st on the Fortune 100 list of largest U.S. corporations, based on 2012 revenue.

 

For more information about Safeco Insurance, go to www.Safeco.com.

 

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