CELEBRATING THE MILLENNIUM
By Adnews Staff
The Millennium Homecoming of Richmond Hill, Ont. plans to celebrate Canada's impact on the world and is looking for sponsors to help it out. Sponsorship packages will cost up to $1.5 million. Millennium Homecoming will celebrate the success of Canadians abroad through local, regional and national events beginning in June. To find out which Canadians should be celebrated, Millennium and its sponsors will launch a campaign to encourage Canadians to nominate a person they feel should be on the list. Local events will be connected with the honorees home town. Regional events will be connected to their adult life and events at the national level will run across the country, could be theme-specific and will include Canadian entertainers. The program will be promoted using community newspapers, print media, national broadcast networks, 12,000 associations, 89 universities and colleges, 200,000 classrooms, Members of Parliament, municipal government and embassies. The campaigns will be created by the agencies of the participating sponsors.