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duce the unnecessary costs our mem-
bers are currently paying for their health
care premiums,” said Ed Edwards, di-
rector of OSEA government relations.
“We have no doubt that endorsing Gov.
Kulongoski is the right thing to do.”
Teacher, school
unions give nod to
Gov. Kulongoski
Letter Carriers
collect 1.4 million
pounds of food
The Oregon Education Association
and the Oregon School Employees As-
sociation have endorsed Gov. Ted Ku-
longoski for re-election.
Kulongoski, a Democrat, faces a
difficult campaign against Republican
Ron Saxton and independent Ben
Westlund, a Republican state senator,
who left the party this year.
OEA, the state’s largest union with
more than 45,000 members, took no
action in the primary election, where
Kulongoski faced two opponents.
The OSEA, which represents
20,000 educational employees in 140
Oregon school districts, community
colleges, education service districts,
Head Start, libraries, and park and
recreation districts endorsed Jim Hill
in the Democratic primary and Kevin
Mannix in the Republican primary.
OEA President Larry Wolf said the
endorsement “means that the OEA
will recommend Kulongoski to the en-
tire membership, and brings with it
volunteer support and financial assis-
tance.”
OSEA President Merlene Martin
said Kulongoski “is the only candidate
with a real plan for increasing the
funding of education, and who will
support and promote other priority is-
sues, such as lowering the cost of
health care.”
All of the major candidates for gov-
ernor were invited to interview with
OSEA’s board of directors and mem-
bers. Only Kulongoski and Senator
Westlund chose to seek the union’s en-
dorsement.
OSEA officials said their primary
focus in endorsement is the candidate’s
position on the issues that members
have identified as critical to the health
and enhancement of Oregon’s public
education system.
“Governor Kulongoski has commit-
ted to increase and stabilize funding of
schools and to continue to fight to re-
More than 3,000 Letter Carriers in
Oregon and Clark County, Wash., col-
lected a total of 1,401,454 pounds of
food during the National Association
of Letter Carriers Food Drive, exceed-
ing last year’s total of 1,358,819
pounds.
The NALC food drive takes place
annually on the second Saturday in
May. It is the largest one-day food
drive in Oregon and in the nation.
Branch 82 letter carriers — cover-
ing Clackamas, Multnomah and
Washington counties, as well as
McMinnville, Newberg, Sheridan and
St. Helens — collected 620,827
pounds of food this year.
“What our letter carriers do on this
one day is simply amazing,” said
Rachel Bristol, executive director of
Oregon Food Bank. “We are grateful
for their tremendous work. We also
thank the hundreds of volunteers who
stepped forward to help and the hun-
dreds of thousands of postal customers
who donated bags of high-quality food
for their letter carriers to pick up on
this day.
Evergreen College
to host summer
school for women
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Ever-
green State College Labor Center is
hosting its 16th annual Summer
School for Union Women and Com-
munity Activists June 28-July 2. This
year’s theme is “Women Bringing It
Back Together: Building Alliances
Between Union and Community Ac-
tivists to Realize Our Goals Locally
and Globally.”
For more information, call Nina
Triffleman at 360-867-6525, or e-mail
her at trifflen@evergreen.edu.
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New class of IBEW Local 48 apprentices graduate
Electrical Workers Local 48 recently graduated 154 apprentices from the NECA-IBEW joint electrical training center.
One hundred and thirty two of the graduates are now recognized as licensed commercial electricians while 21 received
their license in limited energy along with one licensed residential electrician. The apprentices received hundreds of
hours of classroom instruction in a state-of-the-art facility in Northeast Portland. This year’s graduates include: Daniel
Aguirre, Robert Anderson, Dale Anderson, David Anderson, Boyd Bartholomew, William Bates, Mychal Baum, Jeremy Baxter,
Robert Beal Jr., Christopher Behrman, Douglas Bell, Mark Bienerth, Bradley Brandenburg, John Brandenburg, Michael Bredall,
Benjamin Brooks, Brian Caldwell, Marc Calkins, Bryan Campbell, Joshua Carter, Gabriel Caso, Paige Chambers, Jason Chandler,
Dustin Clark, Cole Crenshaw, Kenneth Dailey, David Daniels, Robert Daniels, Troy Davis, Kyle Davis, Kevin Day, Bryce DeChand,
Dean Dills, Nicholas Doering, Garland Dotson, Dolores Doyle, Ryan Dutton, Derek Earls, Scott Ernst, Scott Evans, Tyler Falconer,
John Fenwick, Kipp Franklin, Paul Franklin, Stephen Fuentes, Ciro Galizia, Daryl Glover, Barbara Golden, Brian Gooch, Darrell
Gore, David Granberg, Robin Greene, Jeffrey Grove, Brandon Hanson, Joseph Harvey, Russell Hayden, Jeff Heatherington,
Donald Hester, Jason Hoyt, Dale Huskey, Hung Huynh, Nathan Jackson, Jason Johnson, Kevin Johnson, Neal Johnston, Robert
Kee, Juston Keeble, Clarence Kemp, Kevin Kind, Garrett Kitchen, Paul Kitchen, Joshua Lewis, Gregory Lewis Jr., Dorian Libal,
Timothy Linster, Matthew Lomax, Scott Loyd, Paul Lucas, Timothy Lucas, Lachlan Maclean, James Makin, Shannon Marsh,
Marshall McGrady, Donald McGrady, Jason McKee, Johnathan McNeel, Todd McPherren, Corey Metzler, Ryan Meyers, Paul
Miller, Randall Miller, Jory Mockenhaupt, Erik Moline, David Neuhauser, Paul New, Nick Nickolas, Damon Nordahl, Angela
Nunes, Ryan Palmblad, Michael Petersen, Jeromy Peterson, Theodore Pitt, Michael Ray, Amy Reynolds, Erik Richardson, Rodney
Richardson, Nicholas Rogers, Sasha Rotecki, Christopher Rowden, Steven Rushing, Louis Saenz, Joseph Saunders, Donald Selby,
Lisa Serrano, Derek Shorb, Mark Simpson, Hans Slavens, Robert Slocomb, Eric Slothower, Christopher Smith, Daniel Smith,
Matthew Smyth, Sara Stevenson, David Tankersley, Todd Thompson, Jeremy Tootoosis-Didier, Patrick Trepina, James Webber,
Alan Wiland, Mark Witham, Wesley Withrow, Michael Yager Jr., Timothy Zumwalt, Adam Best, Brett Coe, Valerie Conte, Sean
Creighton, Kevin Flinn, Nathan French, David Fuhrer, Teruko Hall, Adam Hansen, Sara Hughes, Aaron Johnson, Terrance
Jorissen, Eric Kauffman, Mitchell Knobbs, Eric Lindquist, Keith McCormick, Iain Nugent, Cynthia Olson, Chad Stewart, Eric
Stiffler, Marie Stoppelmoor and Michael Brauckmiller.
IBEW pension
manager killed in
bike accident
Sheryl McDaniel, a union pension
benefit manager, died with her hus-
band Darrel McDaniel in a May 29 bi-
cycle accident south of Forest Grove.
The two were riding northbound on
the shoulder of Oregon Highway 47
when a 2002 Saab hit them from be-
hind at about 11:45 a.m. Sheryl Mc-
Daniel, 61, was pronounced dead at
the scene of the accident. Darrel Mc-
Daniel, 65, died in a helicopter on the
way to Legacy Emanuel Hospital.
Both wore helmets.
The Washington County sheriff's
office ruled alcohol was not a factor in
the accident, and decided not to press
charges against the driver, Patricia
Suhrbier of Hillsboro.
Sheryl McDaniel had worked for
Portland-based Joseph H. Herrle &
Associates, Inc. for over 30 years. She
started as a personal secretary to the
late company founder, Joseph H. Her-
rle, who also founded A&I Benefit
Plan Administrators. Later, she han-
dled all aspects of pension benefits for
the 20,000 participants in the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work-
ers (IBEW) District 9 Pension Plan.
She was planning to retire in May
2007.
Her husband was a retired lift truck
driver who had worked at James River
Corporation.
She was born May 20, 1945, in
Hillsboro and graduated from Hills-
boro High School in 1963. A memo-
rial service was held June 5 at Sunset
Presbyterian Church.
Remembrances can be made to the
Alzheimers Association, Columbia-
Willamette Chapter, 1131 NW 21st
Ave., Portland, OR 97209.
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