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| Looking Ahead |
| ► April 2, 2009 - Joint meeting
Hermiston Rotary Club |
► May 7, 2009
"Club" Birthday Party |
► May 15 - 17, 2009
District Conference
Seaside, OR |
► May 28, 2009
Installation of 2009-10
Officers |
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30th Annual Auction
October 3, 2009 |
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| Altrusa International of
Hermiston presents $1,000 dollar check to the Oregon Trail Habitat
for Humanity. |
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| Ann Fialka and Governor Lorraine Michelson look
on as Community Service Co-Chair Karen Cooley presents check. |
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| Altrusa
International of Hermiston |
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Helps the City of Hermiston for their
Oktoberfest which was held on
October 11, 2008.
Pictured are Pat Wheelhouse,
Edith Holt, Donna Moeller,
Angela Pursel and Ann Fialka. |
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Hermiston Altrusans in
Umatilla County Fair Parade with their new sign
"Altrusans in
Action"
They pulled a trailer with the ATV
they raffled off at
their
fundraiser auction on October 4th |
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| Meetings |
► First Thursday
Program Meeting |
► Second Thursday
Board Meeting |
► Third Thursday
Business Meeting |
► Fourth Thursday
Accent Meeting |
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| Contact Information |
Pat Wheelhouse
Phone #
541-567-8865
Email
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District Twelve - Hermiston, Oregon |
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Press Release - Girls Night In - April 9,2010 |
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Altrusa
International of Hermiston
Recognizes Local Young Citizen of the Year |
 Hermiston
High received the Altrusa Young Citizen of the Year Award at the
Hermiston Distinguished Services Banquet in January
from President Janet Cooley. This award is given annually to an
outstanding young person for their contributions of community
service in the local community during the past year.
Catherine is an active member of Key Club, helps with food drives at
school, and regularly participates with Spanish classes delivering
food and gifts to needy families. She has worked to arrange
performances for Majazzty at several community events and selected
and performed appropriate music for Vange John Hospice Annual
Memorial Service. Catherine is also regularly requested to sing the
National Anthem at various community functions. As the daughter of
Altrusan Susan (Jerry) Callahan she has participated at Altrusa
sponsored events, such as Relay for Life and Girls Night In.
As a student, Catherine participates in many
extra-curricular activities. Drama—she has performed in the past
five high school plays, three with lead parts. Most notably was
Mabel in Pirates of Penzance, the musical lead. Catherine also has
been participating in two honors choirs, Majazzty and Con Brio,
which are by-audition only, and require many performances outside of
school.
Catherine currently
maintains a 4.0 GPA and is ranked #1 of 351 students in her junior
class. Catherine is dual-enrolled at BMCC through several
advanced classes. Further, she will have met all requirements for an
Honors Diploma by the end of this school year, as a junior.
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Outstanding
Underclassman, Social Sciences of Merit Award, 10th
grade |
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Outstanding
Underclassman, Science of Merit Award, 10th grade |
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Hermiston High
School, Honor Choir |
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Chosen to
represent HHS at elite regional music event as both a
sophomore and junior, to date. |
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Selected to
perform the National Anthem in a four-day fishing event
sponsored by the Versus Channel, the Oregon National Guard
and WalMart, June of 2009, which was televised earlier this
year |
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.jpg) Mamie
L. Bass
Showed up at Hermiston's
Altrusa Meeting
Mamie - Jordawn Wambeke, President of Hermiston Altrusa Club and
Tammy Malgesini of East Oregonian newspaper interviewed her |
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| Open
Kitchen Program |
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International of Hermiston OR Foundation, Inc. recently donated
$1,000.00 to three area churches for the local Open Kitchen Program.
A check for $400.00 was issued to United Methodist Church, as they
serve 2 meals a week. A check for $200.00 each was presented to
First Christian Church, Church of Nazarene and Our Lady of Angels
Open Table program, who serve meals once a week. The Open Table
Program serves meals at no charge to individuals Monday through
Friday |
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Hermiston Altrusa Helps Domestic Violence Shelter
with Energy Bills |
Altrusa
International of Hermiston OR paid Hermiston Energy Services
$2,000.00 to be applied to the Utility billings of the Domestic
Violence Shelter at the recent Domestic Violence Open House. This
will cover heating and electrical costs for one year for the
Hermiston facility.
 Marta
Havill of the Domestic Violence shelter is shown accepting the check
from Club President Janet Cooley, Judy Packard Community Service
Chair along with Altrusa members Pam Cooper, Kathleen Krosting.
Altrusa International of Hermiston OR. is a service organization
dedicated to community service. Funds are raised through its annual
Auction held the first Saturday in October.
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Department of Human Services
Visitation Rooms project |
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taking 2 visitation rooms that are used when children who have been
removed from their home have supervised visitation with their
parents. The rooms were dismal and the furniture was ready for the
dump. Our Community Service Co Chairs and their committee started to
work and got the entire membership involved in some part of the
project. We had 2 members who did the base painting of the garden
room and then 2 other member who blew us away with the painting they
did freehand. The new couches were donated by a furniture store in
town and the glider rockers were given to us at cost. We had the big
storage unit in the "education" room -the bright colored room-built
and all new toys, books, rugs, changing stations, tables, lamps and
more were put in each room. The employees of DHS have been
overwhelmed with the transformation and they say the families that
have used it so far are very excited. Hopefully it has made a
difference in a difficult situation. |
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| Hermiston Altrusans in Action |
► Christmas Home Tour
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Family Pizza and Move Night
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Hermiston's Woman of the Year - Altrusan Teresa Moncrief
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Irrigon's Volunteers of the Year - Altrusans Janet and Karen
Cooley
► Selection of Hermiston's Young
Citizen - Aracely Villegas
► 4 Scholarships = $3,500 dollars
► Heart for Hope support of dental outreach in Honduras
► Support for UNICEF Heifer Project, Peace Corps project in
Tanzania and Dove Uganda
► Library support for Reading With Furry Friends and Ready,
Set Zoom
► 3 Oregon sesquicentennial books to each school and public
Library in 5 communities
► Books for Babies impacting 600 area families
► Latino family literacy program funding
► Third grade reading program
► Sparrow Project money ($4,000 dollars) is being held in
reserve
► Coats and Shoes For Kids Project has expanded to all 5
communities
► Supplies for domestic violence pet
kennels
► Food Backpacks for Kids - over 500 kid weekends
► Girls Night In - 8th grade girls introduction to Hermiston
High School
► Awarded Altrusa Distinguished Club
► Member of Greater Hermiston Chamber of Commerce
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Make A Difference Day
► Helping at the Columbia River Marathon
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$1,000 donation to Farmers Ending Hunger
► $2,000 payment for electricity for Domestic Violence
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Relay for Life
► Family summer picnic with Bottle Auction
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Flags set along streets for Red Cross - 9/11 Recognition
► Blood Drawing canteen
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Pool Party |
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| Major Fundraiser |
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Annual Auction - October 3, 2009
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First Saturday of October
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Hermiston Community Center |
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| Ready, Set Zoom
Reading program at Hermiston Library |
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The packet includes books, finger
plays and activity pages about the subject. The packets
are placed at 3 of the housing authority complex offices
in Hermiston. Families can take them and enjoy the books
and activities, then return them to the office and pick
up another packet.
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| The Food
Backpacks for Kids project |
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Check for $500.00 was presented to Agape House in Hermiston
to purchase food and backpacks for children in Hermiston,
Stanfield and McNary OR. Agape House coordinates with local
schools to provide food for school children who may not have
sufficient food over the weekend to be alert and ready to
learn when they arrive at their school on Monday morning.
Altrusans spent two hours each Thursday filling an average
of 35 backpacks for Stanfield and 15 backpacks for McNary
School students. Members filing backpacks were recently
shown on KEPR TV (Tri Cities WA) as part of a story on
homeless and needy children in our area and how the
community is trying to fill their needs.
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Janet Cooley, Joyce Dye and Judy Packard
present check to Larry Fulton warehouse managed at Agape House |
Judy Packard, Janet Cooley, Karen Cooley and
Joyce Dye present check to Darlene Lovell and Rev. Syd Bell of
Hermiston First United Methodist Church |
Judy Packard, Janet Cooley, Joyce Dye and
Karen Cooley present check to Kay Edwards and Rev. Elias Mynyaneza
of Our Lady of angel Church. |
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| Girls Night In |
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Girls Night In is a special evening even that gives 8th
grade girls from the 2 Hermiston middles schools an
opportunity to get acquainted with each other, meet high
school leadership girls, tour the high school and so much
more. Altrusa members, high school leadership girls and
individuals from the community, provide a safe, fun evening
that will make the transition to high school in the fall
easier. There are stations the girls rotate through such as
learning cheers with the high school cheerleaders, beading,
scrapbooking, skin care and more. Door prizes are given to
each girl and 2 MP3 players were given away. This year’s GNI
was held April 3, 2009. |
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| Spring
Brunch |
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Altrusans
Kim Mills, Teresa Walchli
and Diana Ables were among those
who enjoyed the
Altrusa Spring Brunch
on Saturday, April 18, 2009. |
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Hermiston Altrusans 30th Annual Auction |
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Preliminary numbers from the 30th Annual
Altrusa Auction indicate that approximately $28,000.00 was
raised Saturday night!! Proceeds will fund the
organization’s programs and services in the Greater
Hermiston area. The theme “Catch the Spirit of Giving”,
seemed to be taken to heart by the 300 community members
attending.
Dean Hickenbottom of Hermiston was the raffle winner of the
32” Flat Screen TV.
Kyle Mills won the Professional Traeger Barbecue while Carol
Driscoll won over $300 in the 50/50 and generously donated a
portion back to Altrusa.
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Altrusa International of Hermiston
Make A Difference Day Project
Columbia River Power Marathon
October 25, 2008
Pat Wheelhouse, Karen Cooley and Edith Holt help provide
food for the runners prior to the race as well as a large
baked potato bar after they completed the race. Several
Altrusans were there to cheer the runners on. The runners
were very appreciative.
There were 109 participants
in the marathon and half-marathon.
Congratulations to all! |
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| International Relations |
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Harriet Isom, of Pendleton, a retired US State Dept
diplomat, spoke to members of Altrusa International of
Hermiston, Oregon at their Feb 12 event. She spoke of
her experiences serving in Asia and Africa.
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Members and guests enjoyed
appetizers, desserts and wine that was provided by the
members for the International Relations Committee |
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Officers |
President
First Vice President
Second Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Assistant Treasurer
Past President
Director - 2008-2010
Director - 2009-2011
Director - 2009-2011 |
Janet Cooley
Jordawn Wambeke
Marilyn O'Gorman
Karen Cooley
Kim Mills
Pam Cooper
Ann Fialka
Angela Pursel
LaRee Treadwell
Judy Packard |
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