Wednesday, July 5, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
KIWANIS: New
equipment needed
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to replace those units with
a modern walk-in freezer/
refrigerator with glass store-
front doors. There are a num-
ber of reasons for doing so:
First, “shopping style”
demands that clients see the
products. It is not feasible
for shoppers to open nine
refrigerator doors looking to
see what’s there. The walk-
in unit, with its glass doors,
allows shoppers to see and
choose exactly what they
need.
Second, in the sum-
mer and fall, the food bank
receives large quantities of
fresh food from local mar-
kets, farms and individuals.
There is lots of waste because
quantity often exceeds stor-
age space. The walk-in unit
will provide enough space to
accept all donated fresh food
plus allow for easier food
rotation.
Third, the food bank
refrigerators/freezers are
aging. They are soon expected
to begin failing or require
expensive maintenance.
The walk-in unit will proac-
tively avoid those expected
expenses.
Volunteers note that the
food bank walk-in project
needs community support.
The food bank has always
received very generous com-
munity financial support.
Every year nearly 100 percent
of the food bank operations
budget is met from commu-
nity donations.
To fund the walk-in proj-
ect, the food bank has received
grants from Kiwanis Pacific
Northwest Foundation, The
Roundhouse Foundation,
Cow Creek Umpqua Indian
Foundation, Oregon Food
Bank, Washington Federal
Bank and its own Kiwanis
Club. These funds are suffi-
cient to order the walk-in unit;
it is ordered and will be deliv-
ered in late July. But there
isn’t sufficient money to pay
for the electrical/plumbing
installation and accessories
such as shopping carts. There
are no further foundation grant
possibilities; therefore the
food bank needs community
support.
If you wish to donate to
the walk-in project, make
a check payable to Sisters
Kiwanis Walk-in and post
to Sisters Kiwanis, P.O. Box
1296, Sisters, OR, 97759. Or
drop off the check at the food
bank (328 W. Main Ave.at
the intersection of Oak and
Main) any Thursday from 9
a.m. to 2 p.m. If you would
like to donate and also see the
walk-in unit, contact Kerry
Bott at 503-432-5278 to make
arrangements.
Six-year-old found in car trunk
By Gillian Flaccus
Associated Press
P O RT L A N D , O r e .
(AP) — A six-year-old
Oregon boy was hospital-
ized Wednesday in critical
condition with severe heat
exhaustion after he was found
locked inside his family’s
car trunk on a hot day, police
said.
Police hope to review sur-
veillance video from a camera
attached to a neighbor’s house
to figure out how the boy got
into the trunk, said Lt. Kerry
Curtis, a spokesman for the
Medford Police Department.
The child was likely in the
trunk for up to an hour on
Tuesday afternoon when tem-
peratures reached 90 degrees
(32 degrees Celsius), Curtis
said.
He was flown by heli-
copter to Oregon Health &
Science University Hospital
in Portland, where he
remains unresponsive and is
undergoing brain scans, he
said.
Authorities originally said
in a statement that the case
appeared to be an accident
and not criminal. But Curtis
said in a telephone interview
with The Associated Press on
Wednesday that police have
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surveillance video should
provide more answers, he
said.
“That’s the million-dollar
question that we’re trying to
answer, is how he got (in)
there,” he said.
Authorities do know the
boy was not playing hide and
seek, Curtis said.
The boy’s parents do not
speak fluent English, and
a language barrier ham-
pered the investigation until
authorities could get a trans-
lator to the home Tuesday
night.
The boy’s father was
working in the garage and the
mother was inside their home
when the boy disappeared,
Curtis said. Both parents
thought he was with the other
parent. When they realized he
was missing, they began to
search and the mother spotted
a cellphone the boy had been
playing with in the back seat
of the family’s 2003 Honda
Civic, which was parked in an
alley behind the house, Curtis
said.
When she opened the car
door to get the cellphone, she
heard the boy whimpering in
the trunk, Curtis said.
Medford is about 275
miles (440 kilometers) south
of Portland.
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