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P R IN T : Arts& Culture Wednesday, Oct 24,2012 »Jfr g H.O.P.E. helps the hungry Luke Frank Associate Arts & Culture Have you ever had to skip a meal to pay for bills, rent, gas or some other necessity? Well, there’s H.O.P.E. for you. H.O.P.E. is an acronym for Helping Other People Eat and is an Oregon Food Bank supported program run by five churches in the area that will give you food if you qualify and have the need. All you have to do is show up, show your ID, show a rent receipt or utility bill showing your current address and once a week they will give you a food box, the amount based on family size, that will feed you nutri tionally balanced meals for three days. They also have thrown in the consideration o f toilet paper. For those without identification or proof o f residence, you can still show up and they will take ybur word for it. H.O.P.E. will make sure that you don’t go hungry, they don’t turn people away. “I’ve been there before, too, and I didn’t know that this was avail able to me and I would like to have known,” said Kelly Stewart who works with the Oregon City H.O.P.E. program. “When you think you have enough packed, you have a bunch o f people come in and you’re like, ‘Ahh! ’ We need to start repackaging boxes again,” said Stewart o f the demand. “The need is great” said Ron Schlosser, master gardener in charge o f the garden at United Methodist Church, one o f the five churches participating in H.O.P.E. The beautifully maintained garden uses a raised bed technique and has so far produced about 1,700 pounds o f food for the church pan- tries. Schlosser and his six or so volunteers grow com, potatoes, green beans, carrots, tomatoes, vari ous species o f peppers, sunflowers, green onions, lettuce, spinach, cel ery, sweet peas and basil. The garden is in its third year and has almost doubled in size Kelly Stewart volunteers at The United Methodist Church, going through boxes that have been donated to the helpful program. Bob, turning 90 next month, and Grace, 94, have volunteered at The United Methodist Church fo r 25 years. The couple moved to West Linn in 1955, and moved into a retirement home in 1993 where they currently reside. since it was originally planted. Schlosser instituted Plant a Row for the Hungry, an initiative started by The Garden Writers Association in 1995. The concept is for garden ers to grow just one more row of vegetables and donate the produce to local homeless shelters and com munity programs like H.O.P.E. “Grow an extra row to donate to a food pantry,” said Schlosser. “The idea is to grow vegetables that don’t require much refrigeration. Small operations such as ours can’t afford to refrigerate large quantities o f vegetables.” “It’s amazing,” said Rynn Mazur, a volunteer for the last year with the United Methodist Church’s H.O.P.E. program. “This church has a garden and we provide produce for many o f the churches.” The United Methodist Church is the second smallest o f the five churches involved in Oregon City H.O.P.E. Serving about 25 to 30 families a week with the typical family size being four, that’s 120 people fed on average. Most o f the food comes from the Oregon Food Bank and much o f that is provided by the federal gov ernment. The partners at H.O.P.E. get some o f their food for free and some o f it is bought by the churches at five cents a pound. The bread is donated by various stores across the city and a lot o f the extra cans of food are donated by reaching out to schools and the public. “Sometimes . we have food drives,” said Mazur. “The schools donate quite a bit of canned food from food drives.” “We haven’t missed a week in all this time,” said volunteer Bob Dichtel o f he and his wife Grace’s 25 years o f dedicated service to the church. “We want to help people,” said Grace Ditchel as they left arm in ami. The Dichtels are the kind o f peo ple who H.O.P.E. truly appreciates. H.O.P.E. is almost completely run by volunteers and is urging for help in feeding the people of this city. They accept donations o f clothes, canned goods, plastic bags and whatever else that can be put into use to help others. If you want to help the hungry and needy, you can also donate to the Oregon Food Bank. It may be a neighbor, a friend or even a family who needs your help and every little bit goes a long way. For more information visit www.oregonfoodbank.org. Oregon CityH.OJP.E. . weekly locations, dates and times: Mon. - Church o f Nazarene at 716 Taylor Street, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tue. - First Presbyterian Church at 1321 Linn Avenue, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wed. - Oregon City United M ethodist Church at 18955 South End Road, from 1 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. Thurs. - St John the Apostle Catholic Church at 417 Washington Street, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Fri. - First Baptist Church o f Oregon at 819 John Adams Street, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. E xcitem en t burns for new kiln Chris Morrow The Clackamas Print C lack am as C om m unity College has purchased a new, computer controlled gas kiln cost ing an estimated $25,000 from the school’s capital reserves. The new kiln will be replacing the kiln that has been with CCC for nearly 11 years which is rife with malfunctions, hazards and the scars o f age. “The kiln that we have now has been repaired many times, our whole burner system needs to be replaced,” stated Nora Brodnicki, art departm ent chair and a ceramics instructor in an email. Maintaining the old kiln and replacing its components is not a simple task, according to Kelly Kate Simmons points out the signs o f age in the old kiln; loose bricks in the ceiling have begun to slide down and separate from the rest. <X> ■ â WEDNESDAY-W/24 co .’st- CM o x CD o£ |£| JO CO a* 5 « e « O • Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Ashland; Times Vary, $21 - $82.50 Non-member, $21 - $62.63 Member (through Nov. 4) THURSDAY-10/25 • Tales from Beyond the Grave: Oswego Heritage House, Lake Oswego, 7 p.m., Free, ADULTS ONLY White, the administrative assis tant for the art, theater and digi tal multimedia communications departments. “There is only one per son in the Portland Metro-area who was skilled enough to repair the old kiln and he had to build any parts that needed to be replaced,” stated White. “It is a huge time commit ment to get a good firing. This new kiln will autom ate much o f the process. This will help to keep the energy costs down,” stated White in an email. The old kiln displays obvi ous signs o f deterioration. The bricks in the ceiling o f the kiln are loosening and the door is no longer sealing properly and has to be plugged up w ith bricks. The gaps around those bricks allow for a substantial loss o f heat. The electronic mechanism for lighting the kiln does not w ork reliably so it often needs to be lit manually w ith a propane torch which can be dangerous. “Sometimes the pilot light doesn’t stay lit throughout the evening,” said Kate Simmons, studio technician for the art FRIDAY -10/26 X - • Sinatra Fest 2012: Tony Starlight's, Portland (Oct. 26 - Oct. 28} • I Digress: Buffalo Gap Saloon, Portland 9 p.m. SA TU R D A Y -1 ® /2 ! • PDX Zombie Walk: OMSl overflow parking, Portland, Free, 10 a.m. • All Time Low: Hawthorne Theatre, Portland 6 p.m. $20-$23 department, sculpting instructor and gallery instructor. “You come in and you expect the kiln to be at a particular temperature, like 1,400 degrees or so and it isn’t because it hasn’t been- burning all night. That sets you back a whole day.” According to Simmons, fir ing ceramics isn’t ju st art, it is a complicated science. Glazes m ust be carefully form u lated in order to produce the desired results and the firing process is closely monitored. “Each glaze reacts to the temperature in its own w ay and w e’ve done a lot o f testing o f dif ferent glazes to decide what kind w e’d like to make available to our students, which glazes are reli able and not going to run, which o f them show the colors that we think they’re going to show, how they behave when they’re next to another ceramic object with different colorants in it,” said Simmons. “With the old kiln the reduction firing process needs to be watched hourly to see if w e’re climbing too fast or if w e’re stay ing at a particular temperature. The new kiln will be program mable so w e’ll be able to set ’ SUNDAY-10/28 • Chin Up Rocky: Branx, Portland 6 45 p.m. $8 • All American Rejects: Crystal Ballroom, Portland 8 p.m. $25-$28 in the temperature increases and decreases that w e’re looking for.” The new kiln is commercial ly manufactured by Geil Kilns; the parts, if and when they need to be repaired or replaced, will be relatively easy to obtain. Also, L tanks to the computer ized control system, the firing process will be easier and safer. The kiln has been spe cially selected by B rodnicki and is the same kind employed by P ortland C om m unity College campuses at Sylvania, 82nd Avenue and Cascade. “All o f our PCC counterparts agreed that Geil kilns are safe, efficient, easy to use and main tain,” states Brodnicki. “The com puter system on this kiln will help us to save energy and run our kiln with greater energy efficiency.” Campus Services w ill be dism antling the old kiln in order to clear a spot for the new kiln which has yet to be rem oved from its packaging. “Since we ju st got it, I have the [instructional] DVD and I plan on sitting down and watching that,” said Simmons. MONDAY W/29 TUESDAY-10/30 • The Toadies: Crystal Ballroom Portland, 8 p.m., $20 • Waka Flocka Flane: Roseland Theater, Portland, 8 p.m., $25
