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Hood River News, Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Decoding Dyslexia group hosts workshops
The Columbia Gorge chapter of De-
coding Dyslexia kicks off its 2015 Par-
ent and Educator Workshop Series on
Tuesday, Feb. 17 with a presentation on
“The Dyslexia Friendly Classroom” by
expert teacher Emily O’Connor. The
presentation is free and will be held at
the Hood River Hotel, 102 Oak St., from
6 to 8 p.m. For teachers, two profession-
al development credits can be earned
for a cost of $20, payable at the event.
O’Connor is a Portland reading spe-
cialist and certified Barton tutor and
Dyslexia Screener with PDX Reading
Specialist, LLC.
The Parent and Educator Workshop
series continues on March 10 with
“What Parents and Teachers need to
Know About Learning to Read,” pre-
sented by Cheryl Anthony of Success-
ful Learning Educational Services,
LLC. The presentation is from 6 to 8
p.m. at the Hood River Hotel. Dyslexia
Support Meetings will also be held the
first Tuesday of March, April and May
at 6:30 p.m. at Ground Coffee, 12 Oak
St., Hood River.
For more info, contact Megan Fili-
ault at 503-209-9638 or columbi-
agorge@decoding dyslexiaor.org.
GEM gives service honor to FISH, Our Redeemer
Submitted photo
LYLE SECONDARY School student, Qwum-Slu Spino will partici-
pate in native dancing Saturday at the library KOOBDOOGA event.
WS ‘Community Reads’
shares cultures Feb. 7
Friends of the Library in-
vite the public to attend a cul-
tural sharing experience fol-
lowed by a film, Saturday at
the White Salmon Valley Com-
munity Library.
The afternoon events will
start at 2 p.m. with a presenta-
tion by Lyle Secondary School
students opening with the tra-
ditional Native American But-
terfly Dance, followed by a
talk on Native American re-
galia, fishing and hunting
practices, and use of roots and
berries. The student finale
will be a traditional Round
Dance. At 3:15 p.m., the award-
winning PBS American Mas-
ters feature film “Coming to
Light: Edward S. Curtis and
the North American Indian”
will be shown.
This program is the second
in a series of five Saturday
events in connection with the
White Salmon Valley Commu-
nity Library’s first annual
“KOOBDOOGA: Community
Reads 2015” project (KOOB-
DOOGA is “A Good Book”
spelled backwards). The week-
ly events are inspired by this
year’s featured book “Short
Nights of the Shadow Catch-
er: The Epic Life and Immor-
tal Photographs of Edward
Curtis” by award winning
Seattle author Timothy Egan.
A stunning exhibit of art by
local and regional artists and
inspired by the book is on
view through Feb. 28. The dis-
play is featured through the
end of February in White
Salmon downtown windows.
Food bank site
is on track for
April move-in
By KIRBY NEUMANN-REA
News editor
Gorge Ecumenical Min-
istries has awarded the FISH
program with its 2015 In-
spired Service and Action
Award.
Kathy Terry of Our Re-
deemer and Chuck Bugge of
FISH accepted the honor at
the Jan. 25 annual meeting, at
Our Redeemer Lutheran
Church on Tucker Road.
The annual award by the
group of churches is in “grat-
itude for inspired work to
build a new food distribution
center,” according to GEM’s
Rod Parrott. The church do-
nated the land and the new
structure is connected by a
breezeway to the church.
“The award is reflective on
the whole community and
what it has done to help this
happen,” said Bugge, chair of
the construction committee.
Planning began in 2011, and in
its two-year capital campaign,
the organization raised $1 mil-
lion, with the help of grants
from inside as well as outside
the county. In-county gifts
came from more than 560
sources, according to Bugge.
“This is something the
community has been working
hard for, during the last four
years, so it’s an award we can
all claim,” Bugge said.
Our Redeemer Lutheran
pastor David King welcomed
the GEM assembly of about
60 people, and Oregon Food
Bank’s Suzanna Morgan
spoke of the value of nutri-
tion education and garden-
ing programs in responding
to food insecurity, and updat-
ed the group on pending leg-
islation to deal with the
issue.
Education and integration
with local food production
are two precepts of the Hood
River FISH program, which
works with Gorge Grown
Food Network. FISH will
offer classes and outreach
from the new headquarters,
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These projects include stu-
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“Down the road we hope
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which will be equipped with
a meeting room and destina-
tion kitchen. “We’re tied into
some proactive things,”
Bugge said.
The church grounds are
the location for the new food
bank headquarters, due for
completion by the end of
March. (The Odell, Cascade
Locks and Parkdale food
bank locations will continue
to operate; the new head-
quarters will allow for more
efficient distribution of food
stocks among the four sites.)
Contractor Doug Simur-
dak told the building com-
mittee last week that the
headquarters project should
be done by the end of March.
“Getting that date was im-
portant to us because there
are things we need to do to as
the project comes close to
completion,” Bugge said. He
cited scheduling a crew to de-
liver and install shelving do-
nated from the old Hood
River Supply store.
“Once we have an idea of
these type of things, we can
schedule people to come into
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