A6
COMMUNITY
East Oregonian
Community Bank
announces Apple
Appreciation
Award winners
East Oregonian
JOSEPH — This
fall, Community Bank
branches
collected
teacher nominations for
their new Apple Appre-
ciation Award. The
award
acknowledges
Bidlake
current K-12 teachers
in the local community
while also supporting
school clubs.
The winning teacher
from each Community
Bank location was pre-
sented with an Apple
Appreciation Award tro-
Peterson
phy and asked to choose
a club or student organi-
zation at their school to
receive a $200 donation
from the bank.
“We received a great
number of comments
through social media
that pointed out that all
Rodighiero
teachers deserved an
award — we agree,” said
Community Bank President Tom Moran
in a press release. “They have certainly
put forth a heroic effort, facing down the
extra challenges of last spring and this
fall.”
The bank congratulates the teachers
with the most nominations collected in
the branches and online.
Michele Bidlake, at Washington Ele-
mentary School in Pendleton, selected
the school’s organization for children
in need that provides supplies, food and
clothes. In Hermiston, West Park Ele-
mentary School teacher Allison Peter-
son won the Apple Appreciation Award,
with funds going toward the school’s
Student Incentive Program. Kathryn
Rodighero, teacher at Gib Olinger Ele-
mentary School in Milton-Freewater,
selected the First Grade Classroom Fund
to receive the bank donation.
For more information about the
awards, contact Moran at 509-525-9860
or tmoran@communitybanknet.com.
VISIT US ON THE WEB AT:
www.EastOregonian.com
Thursday, December 3, 2020
COMMUNITY BRIEFING
Oregon Grain
Growers Distillery to
release aged whiskey
PENDLETON — Fans of
Oregon Grain Growers Distill-
ery, 511 S.E. Court Ave., Pend-
leton, will be able to sample the
company’s latest release begin-
ning Friday, Dec. 4, during a
Repeal Day event for its Cab-
bage Hill aged whiskey, in com-
memoration of the 87th anniver-
sary of the end of Prohibition.
While a bottling session is
planned for Dec. 3, it is not open
to the public. Repeal Day food
and drink specials and whiskey
tastings begin on Friday, Dec. 4,
at 11 a.m., available for dine-in
customers on the distillery’s
outdoor patio, and continue
through the weekend.
For more information, call
Kelli Bullington at 541-276-
0700, or visit their website,
www.oregongrain.com,
or
social media pages.
Pendleton Lions
sponsor food drive
PENDLETON — The Pend-
leton Lions Club is sponsoring a
food drive on Saturday, Dec. 5, at
Grocery Outlet, 1810 S.W. Court
Ave., from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
All food donations will ben-
efi t St. Mary’s Outreach in
Pendleton.
For a list of needed items or
additional information about the
food drive, visit the Pendleton
Lions website at www pendle-
tonlionsclub.org.
Hermiston’s holiday
bazaar set for Dec. 5
HERMISTON — The city
of Hermiston’s annual holiday
bazaar will take place on Sat-
urday, Dec. 5, from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m.
Due to COVID-19 concerns,
the bazaar will take place in
the parking lot of the Hermis-
ton Community Center, 415 S.
Highway 395, instead of inside.
Social distancing measures
will be in place and masks are
required.
The bazaar will feature a
variety of local vendors selling
crafts, Christmas cards, baked
goods, decorations and more.
Oregon Grain Growers Distillery/
Contributed Photo
Oregon Grain Growers Distillery
in Pendleton will release its Cab-
bage Hill aged whiskey on Sat-
urday, Dec. 5, 2020, at a release
event featuring tastings and
food on the distillery’s outdoor
patio.
The Kiwanis Club will also be
selling Christmas trees in the
parking lot from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Shoppers at the bazaar will be
able to drop off donations of
canned food for the Hermiston
Police Department’s Christmas
Express programs in the parking
lot as well.
Wave of Light honors
departed children
WALLA WALLA, Wash. —
A global candle lighting event on
Dec. 13 at 6:30 p.m. will honor
those who departed from the
world too soon.
Compassionate Friends of
Walla Walla offers support to
those who have lost a child, sib-
ling or grandchild. The local
chapter presents the candle light-
ing to honor those who died and
to acknowledge the suffering of
loved ones who remain.
Nicole Husted and Annie Yet-
mez are local chapter co-leaders.
This is the second annual Wave
of Light ceremony here.
It’s a free event, but partic-
ipants must connect with the
schedule by EventBrite for a
ticket and a Zoom link.
The candle lighting starts at
7 p.m. in New Zealand, and the
wave fl ows through each time
zone around the world. Locally,
it begins with a 6:30 p.m. infor-
mation session, then the candles
are lit at 7 p.m.
“A child died but is not forgot-
ten,” Husted said. “It’s a global-
izing of light. In each time zone
candles are lit, then it goes on to
the next. It’s a 24-hour wave of
light.”
During the program, the
names of children will be read
during a slide show of photo-
graphs of them sent in by loved
ones.
“Our purpose is to honor the
children,” Husted said. “Espe-
cially during the holidays. It’s an
event where they can honor that
child and spend some time in
refl ection.”
The group also has an ongoing
support session at 7 p.m. the sec-
ond Wednesday of every month.
The next session will be Dec.
9. “Hospice has been provid-
ing help for us,” she said. “Right
now there’s a handful of us, fi ve
or six. When it was in-person we
had about 10-15 regulars.” Those
grieving the departed can be part
of the wave of light and honor.
Holiday Music
Festival set to
broadcast via radio
PENDLETON — The Ore-
gon East Symphony will be pre-
senting its annual Holiday Music
Festival as a free, prerecorded
community radio program to be
broadcast on 104.3 KCUW-LP
Pendleton and 90.5 KBLU Pilot
Rock. The concert will be broad-
cast on Dec. 12 and Dec. 19, at
8 p.m., and on Dec. 13 and Dec.
20 at 5 p.m.
An ecumenical celebration of
the holidays through song, this
year’s featured performance for
the Holiday Music Festival will
be the OES Chamber Orchestra
performing “A Dickens Christ-
mas Carol Suite” by Andrew
Dabczynski under the direc-
tion of guest conductor Zach
Banks. Banks is also the edu-
cation director for the Oregon
East Symphony and conductor
for the Grande Ronde Symphony
Orchestra.
“A Dickens Christmas Carol
Suite” is a collection of tradi-
tional English Christmas car-
ols arranged for string orchestra,
augmented by a narrator reciting
an abridged version of Charles
Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.”
The narrator for the program will
be OES Board of Directors and
Chorale member Lezlee Flagg.
In order to produce this pro-
gram with a minimal amount
of COVID-19 transmission risk,
the symphony is taking an unex-
pected approach to capturing its
performance. The initial plan
for recording the Holiday Music
Festival was to turn the sym-
phony’s regular performance
venue, the Vert Auditorium, into
a recording studio for a day, with
an audio engineering team led by
Addison Schulberg capturing a
live performance by an 11-mem-
ber ensemble.
Since that plan now falls well
outside the guidelines for gath-
erings recently implemented by
the Oregon Health Authority, the
symphony will now be record-
ing each musician individually
in Schulberg’s recording studio,
Zimm Sound, layering and mix-
ing their performances together
to create a virtual symphony.
Banks will retain his conducting
duties by providing direction to
musicians from the control booth
of the studio.
The Holiday Music Festival
is made possible with support
from the Reser Family Founda-
tion, CHI St. Anthony Hospi-
tal, the Oregon Arts Commis-
sion, and the Oregon Cultural
Trust. The symphony was a
recipient of the Oregon Cultural
Trust’s Corona Virus Relief Sup-
port Fund, which provided fund-
ing to cultural nonprofi ts across
the state in order to cover gen-
eral operating expenses in light
of lost earned income due to the
pandemic.
The Oregon East Symphony
is a 501©3 nonprofi t with the
mission to operate, support, and
maintain a symphony orches-
tra, ensembles, chorale, and
youth classical music program
to enhance the cultural wealth of
the region through education and
performance.
For more information on the
Oregon East Symphony, or to
make a donation, contact the
offi ce at info@oregonEastSym-
phony.org or 541-276-0320.
— EO Media Group
Foundation
VIRTUAL
Auction
AUCTION OPENS
V I E W T R E E S A N D S I G N U P TO B I D AT
sahpendleton.org/festivaloftrees
@
1 0 : 0 0 A M • C LO S E S
@
8: 0 0 P M
DECEMBER 5, 2020
Sponsored by
&
HAPPY CANYON
Elkhorn Media Group • Meadow Outdoor Advertising