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26 Wednesday, July 15, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon VOLUNTEERS: Care-A-Vanners make Sisters a regular stop Red Cross seeks volunteers for fire season Continued from page 3 Care-A-Vanner couples who recently worked on a Sisters Habitat home in the Village Meadows neighborhood. Cindy and Peter Cambrier (and their Vizsla puppy, Lily) spent two weeks working on a home-build here in Sisters. They have been full-time RVers and Sisters Habitat volunteers for six years. Originally from Michigan, they discovered Sisters while on their way to visit their grown children in Portland. A secondary draw to Sisters is the great fly-fishing rivers nearby. While talking about how much they love this area, Cindy said, <Local volun- teers are incredible and are very welcoming. They seem happy to see us! The vol- unteers we9ve met are such good people who care about their community. The local full-time volunteers blow our minds with their dedication to building homes in all types of weather, all year long.= Peter describes his wife as a <professional volunteer= who has done unpaid profes- sional work with hospice, Big Brothers Big Sisters, raised money for food banks, and was a former Michigan State board member for the League of Women Voters. Before his retire- ment, Peter worked for the ShoreBank of Chicago, a small business lender that worked with nonprofit loans. Cindy said that Habitat9s mission of building homes is very meaningful for her. She saw her mom struggle as a renter dealing with higher and higher rents while raising a family on her own. Her mom always said that if she owned a house, she would <feel secure.= Cindy said she <feels for people raising a family living on the edge.= As full-time RVers, they often miss the sense of com- munity that they had in own- ing a home in a city. Habitat for Humanity Care-A- Vanners helps fill that void. Dan and Susie Campaña are Habitat Care-a-Vanners from Southern California who travel throughout the United States and Canada helping build Habitat for Humanity homes. But that is only part of their story. Dan is a college profes- sor who teaches philosophy and religious philosophy. His wife, Susie, is a self-pro- claimed <professional volun- teer= who works with youth gangs, women9s shelters, and homeless issues in south Los Angeles. They are parents to two adult children, a son and a daughter, who are following their parents9 example and generously give of them- selves to their communities. PHOTO PROVIDED Cindy and Peter Cambrier worked on a Habitat build in Sisters. Two years ago, mother and daughter did a home build- ing trip to Vietnam. Mother and son worked on a house build in Canada. The family has always built or remod- eled their own homes so their children learned how to build. When the children were growing up, their friends wanted to learn how to build houses, too. So, Dan and Susie orga- nized week-long trips every year (for 19 years!) to an orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico, where they built or repaired whatever was needed. Dan and Susie had one requirements of their chil- dren9s friends 4 the friends9 parents also had to go with them and participate and learn. Dan9s profession gives him the summers off, so they load up the motorhome and lend their skills to building homes with Habitat for Humanity around the country. Although the usual Care-a-Vanner trav- els in a large group of other committed builders for two weeks each year, another exception to the 8large group9 rule, the Campanãs, often travel on their own and work as long as their sched- ule allows. Dan and Susie have been working in Sisters for the last five weeks now, their seventh year volunteer- ing with Sisters Habitat for Humanity. They heard about Sisters Habitat while volun- teering in Tillamook. Once they visited Sisters, they loved it! They said <Everyone here is so welcoming!= They9ve been building Habitat homes since 2007 when they went to Slidell, Louisiana during the home rebuilding phase following Hurricane Katrina. They said there were hundreds of people working together to get folks back into homes. Volunteers in enormous mobile kitchens prepared and fed them the most amazing Southern food every day. They also partici- pated in the rebuilding efforts following Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey in 2012 The Campañas love Habitat and its volunteers. They said that they have not only built homes; they have also built many friendships along the way. Susie said: <We are so grateful for what we have, we want to give back.= When they have extra time between builds, they stop in a town and ask if they have a Habitat ReStore. If so, they volunteer their time there. BE SAFE IN THE CURVES THIS SUMMER! Volunteers are needed in shelters to help assess peo- ple9s health. Daily observa- tion and health screening for COVID-19-like illness among shelter residents may also be required. RNs super- vise all clinical tasks. Roles are also avail- able for Certified Nursing Assistants, Certified Home Health Aides, student nurses and medical students. Red Cross needs volunteers who can provide care as dele- gated by a licensed nurse in shelters. This could include assisting with activities of daily living, personal assis- tance services, providing health education and help- ing to replace medications, durable medical equipment or consumable medical supplies. If you are interested in helping our community should a disaster occur, visit www.redcross.org/ volunteertoday or con- tact our regional offices at v o l u n t e e r. c a s c a d e s @ redcross.org. Review the CDC guid- ance for people who are at higher risk for severe illness, consult your health care provider, and follow local guidance. 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