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gel established St. Joseph Shelter, a
transitional housing program for home-
less families, in 1988.
They started a food bank along with
the shelter and operated it out of Schar-
bach’s garage for its first years.
Over the years she became synony-
mous with the food bank.
“When she comes today she’ll prob-
ably have bags of clothes in the back
that neighbors have dropped off,” said
Sister Angela Meister, formerly the pro-
gram director of Mission Benedict.
When Mission Benedict moved to the
basement of St. Joseph, Scharbach
went along with it.
Volunteers have come and gone, but
Scharbach has been the constant.
“When I first started working here,
that used to be our clothes sorting room
down there and she came in every day,
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dle man.”
Duda’s travels in southern Germany
inspired her to approach city leaders
about hosting a farmers market here.
“I love the markets over there. They
are so fabulous,” she said.
At their May meeting, city council-
ors approved the Wochenmarkt con-
cept that Duda presented with retired
restaurateur Tom Maurer. The council
went a step further, voting to insure the
market so individual vendors don’t
have to.
“That’s why we went the route of
making it a city-sponsored event,”
Mathiesen said.
So a Wochenmarkt vendor can show
up on any given Thursday with an ap-
proved application and $15 and sell for
the day. No seasonal commitment is re-
quired; the market’s committee mem-
bers – Duda, Maurer and Shanigan –
want to flex with the unpredictable na-
ture of harvest.
Besides her experience in charming
European markets, Duda also knows
the fertile Willamette Valley is full of
commercial farmers who sometimes
find themselves with extra crops.
“My husband works in farming, and
I know there are a lot of big farms out
there,” she said. “There’s so much that,
sometimes, it goes to waste.”
practically, and worked on sorting the
clothes and neatening them up and get-
ting them ready to go out,” volunteer
Marilyn Johnson said.
“And then she’d help in the food room
when the food came in, stocking shelves
and things. It’s only been the last couple
years that she’s gone to sitting down at
the desk and signing people in, but she
is 99, almost 100.”
The past few years Scharbach has
had to use a walker.
Though she isn’t carrying around
cases of food or moving boxes of
clothes, she is no less valuable to Mis-
sion Benedict.
“Having Verna sit in that chair every
week makes other people want to vol-
unteer,” said Laura Scarbro, program
coordinator at Mission Benedict. “They
think to themselves, ‘Well, if she can get
here twice a week to volunteer, so can
I.’”
Scharbach is not a flashy person and
has had the same humble Ford sedan for
years. Until recently she drove herself
wherever she needed to go.
For years she went to Salem in the
mornings to participate in a dancing
program at Center 50+, but would leave
early on Wednesdays and Fridays so she
could make it back to Mt. Angel in time
to volunteer at Mission Benedict.
Now one of her daughters, Susan or
Nancy, drive her to the food bank twice a
week.
In 2012, the Mt. Angel Chamber of
Commerce named Scharbach the volun-
teer of the year.
What she cares about, however, is
the friends she’ll see each time she
comes to Mission Benedict and making
new friends with the mission’s clients.
“She’s community minded and really
believes in helping the poor,” said Nancy
Scharbach. “She’s kind of an odd duck.
She spent her whole life here. She got
married when she was 17. She still lives
in the same house that she and my dad
built. She’s kind of remarkable for her
openmindedness.”
Scharbach grew up in Mt. Angel in a
Herself a baker, Duda typically
brings to market her home-baked
goods, such as bread and cookies, and
annual and perennial plants from her
day job at the Happy Bee in Woodburn.
In the booth next-door, Maurer sells
his own baked treats. Formerly the
owner of Burger Time in Mt. Angel, he
learned to cook the eatery’s pies when
his wife fell ill.
“I learned to bake when I could still
call her and ask all those funny ques-
tions like, ‘What should I do about the
piecrust sticking to the rolling pin?” he
said.
She died more than a decade ago,
but Maurer never stopped baking. At
last week’s market, he sold slices of pie,
cabbage rolls, chocolate cookies, coco-
nut macaroons, zucchini bread, choco-
late chip bars and more. His buyers
were mostly local, so lively chatting ac-
companied business transactions.
Nearby, berries and jam were on sale
at two booths, Samoilov Farm, from Mt.
Angel, and South Barlow Berries from
Canby.
Partway through the morning,
mother-daughter team, Kathy and
Maddie Buhr, arrived to sell lemonade
for 25 cents per cup. They’d been
recruited by a Mt. Angel librarian, who
proposed the business venture to 12-
year-old Maddie.
To learn more about the new market,
log on to http://www.ci.mt-an-
gel.or.us/general/page/new-mt-angel-
wochenmarkt-weekly-market.
time when going to town meant hitching
up a horse to a buggy.
She has been volunteering since her
50s.
She started at the Mt. Angel Commu-
nity and Senior Center and added in
Mission Benedict about 30 years ago.
“Somebody asked me to be the boss
one time and I said I don’t want to be no
boss, I want to be a follower,” Scharbach
said.
A few years ago, Scharbach had a fall
and was asked not to volunteer with the
Mt. Angel Senior Center anymore.
Scarbro said Scharback was afraid
she would be asked not to come back to
volunteer with Mission Benedict due to
her age.
But Scarbro has a special present at
her 100th birthday party at Mission
Benedict on Friday. It was a contract to
spend the next 35 years volunteering
there.
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