IBEW #48 volunteers help light up
The Grotto Christmas Festival of Lights
A holiday tradition for some mem-
bers of IBEW Local 48 is volunteer-
ing to help set up the temporary
power for The Grotto’s Festival of
Lights — all 500,000 of them.
Local 48 members and their em-
ployers at the National Electrical
Contractors Association did the work
on Saturday, Nov. 8.
“No rain made for a great day
being outside and working to-
gether,” said Terry Reigle, a busi-
ness rep for Local 48 who helped
coordinate the event.
The union has helped The Grotto
set up the power system since 1988.
The Festival of Lights is one of
the largest Christmas choral festi-
vals in the country. More than
55,000 people enjoy the Festival
each year. Five performances are
held each evening in The Grotto’s
600-seat chapel, known for its
cathedral quality acoustics. There is
also outdoor caroling, puppet shows
and a live animal petting zoo.
The event runs nightly from 5 to
9:30 p.m. through Dec. 30 (closed
Christmas Day). Cost is $10 for
adults, $9 for seniors 65 and over,
$5 for kids ages 3 to 12, and free for
children 2 and under. Free parking
is available.
IBEW Local 48 members volun-
teering this year were: Ryan Albert,
Daniel Arreola, Mike Benedict,
Patrick Coffin, Kimberly Cole, Terri
Cromwell, Jesus Cruz, Tim Em-
ineth, Perry Fellman, Andrew
Glenn, Nik Joslin, Marcos Kassik,
Jonathan Kowalski, Brett Le-
tourneau, Ray Lister, Kennitha Lo-
max, Stephen Martell, Oscar
Merida, Erik Moline, Samer Obeid,
Bob Palandech, Dan Poczynek,
Tracey Powers, Terry Reigle, Ed
Renfro, Hector Reynoso, Dan
Rhein, Tim Salber, Brandon Smith,
Jennifer (Hoven) Smith, Lauren
Smith, Kristi Straight, Ben Texley,
Elvin Thompson, James Thomsen,
Debra Wisniewski, Carla Young,
and Scott Zadow.
LERA hands out ‘Maggie’ awards
Sarah Thompson, a representative
of the Oregon Nurses Association, and
David Wilson, a member of Service
Employees International Union Local
49 and a custodian at Mountain View
High School in Vancouver, Wash.,
were the labor recipients of “Maggie
Awards,” presented by the Oregon
chapter of the Labor and Employment
Relations Association (LERA).
Helen Moss, a senior instructor at
the Labor Education and Research
Center at the University of Oregon, re-
ceived the Academic Award.
LERA presented Management
Practitioner Awards to Patrice Boose of
Kaiser Permanente and Bill Mullen-
burg of Portland General Electric.
Management-side attorney Verne
Newcomb received the Emeritus
Award.
The awards were presented follow-
ing LERA’s annual conference held
last month in Portland. The awards
are in memory of Magdalena “Mag-
gie” Jacobsen, who founded the Ore-
gon chapter of LERA while assigned
to Portland as a mediator for the Fed-
eral Mediation and Conciliation Serv-
ice.
LERA is an organization that
brings labor-management relations
practitioners together to improve re-
lations. The annual awards recognize
people who have demonstrated com-
mitment to the collective bargaining
process with integrity and involve-
ment in the labor relations commu-
nity.
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