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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
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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.
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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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<The coronavirus pan-
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If hotel stays aren9t possible,
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