More than 3,000 adults and children in need throughout the Sacramento region can count on new, warm coats to get through the winter thanks to an all-out effort by Lyon Real Estate agents.

Working with the national nonprofit, One Warm Coat, Lyon’s regional team of agents, brokers and support staff threw themselves into a month-long winter coat donation drive during October. Given their busy schedules, many in the company expected to hit the 500 mark, but employees far exceeded that goal.

In Davis and Woodland alone, Lyon agents collected 147 coats that were donated to the Short-Term Emergency Aid Committee, the Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Center and the Food Bank of Yolo County, where many of the agents also donate their time and money. A total of 330 coats were delivered to Yolo County agencies. In all, more than 17 agencies received coats collected by Lyon agents and employees that will be distributed to people in need in Sacramento, Placer, Nevada, Sacramento, Yolo and El Dorado counties.

“When we added up coats collected from everyone’s efforts, from offices in the foothills to agents based throughout the Sacramento region, it came to a whopping 3,110 coats,” Lyon Real Estate President Pat Shea said in a news release. “It was an amazing example of how a large group of people can achieve a great amount of good by working together.”

The coat donation drive started out as an idea at Lyon’s annual Fun Realtor Education Day. To supplement the coat drive, Lyon employees partnered with Kohl’s department stores to obtain 50 new children’s coats for the Kids First organization in Roseville and Auburn and the Sacramento Food Bank’s Mother Baby Program. Those coats, and all the donated coats, had to be either new or lightly used to qualify for donation.

“We had mountains of them,” said Christi McDowell, the Lyon marketing director who helped organized the coat drive, in the news release. “It really brought home all the hard work our agent team did in reaching out to the community.”

Sybil Hunt, community outreach director for One Warm Coat, said in the release that “this year, we are on pace to collect and distribute our 3 millionth coat — and Lyon’s 3,110 coats made a fantastic contribution to that effort.”

Lyon closed just under 7,000 transactions in 2010, worth a combined total of $1.9 billion in sales volume. With real estate agents in 17 regional offices in Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado and Yolo counties, Lyon remains the region’s leading real estate company. For more information, visit www.golyon.com.

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Lyon Real Estate agents and employees — including those in Davis and Woodland — have been collecting warm coats for donation to shelters and nonprofit agencies in the region. From left are Darren Soares of Lyon Real Estate; Susan Simon, executive director of the Short-Term Emergency Aid Committee; and Salie Yin and Kim Eichorn, both of Lyon Real Estate. Courtesy photo

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