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Thursday, December 31, 2020
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TETWP donates to cancer support organizations
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — The
Pendleton
Round-Up’s
Tough Enough To Wear
Pink may not have been able
to take place in 2020, but
that didn’t prevent the cam-
paign from raising $11,000
for its causes. The TETWP
campaign on Dec. 29, 2020,
donated more than $11,000
to two local cancer support
organizations.
The Round-Up Associa-
tion’s TETWP split $11,000
raised in 2020 between the
St. Anthony Hospital Cancer
Care Clinic and the Kickin’
Cancer New Beginnings
program. While contribu-
tions usually come from
generous sponsors, dona-
tions, fundraising events
and merchandise sales, not
having the 2020 Pendle-
ton Round-Up meant no
TETWP event. Instead, this
year’s contributions came
from two primary sources:
the Let’er Buck Cares Fund
and Oregon Grain Growers
Brand Distillery (OGGB).
The Let’er Buck Cares
Fund, which has raised
more than $900,000 since
June, was established by the
Pendleton Round-Up and
Happy Canyon boards of
directors through the Ore-
Mikal Wright/Pendleton Round-Up
TETWP co-chairs Casey White-Zollman (far left) and Jill Gregg (far right) present checks for
$5,500 each to Lisa Hummell (second from left), of the CHI St. Anthony Hospital Cancer Care
Clinic, and to Deb Shampine (second from right), of the Kick’n Cancer New Beginnings pro-
gram, in front of the Pendleton Round-Up and Happy Canyon offices and retail store on Tues-
day, Dec. 29, 2020.
gon Community Foundation
to provide support to the
community’s not-for-prof-
its, service organizations,
community groups and the
local economy, all of which
were immensely impacted
by the lack of the Pendleton
Round-Up in 2020 due to
COVID-19. The Let’er Buck
Cares Fund donated $10,000
to TETWP in October in an
effort to allow TETWP to
continue to support its two
benefactor
organizations
despite COVID-19.
In addition, OGGB, a
distillery in Pendleton, held
a fundraiser during what
would have been TETWP
day in September by
donating a portion of pro-
ceeds from the day’s sales.
OGGB raised and donated
$800 to TETWP from the
fundraiser.
“It was devastating not
being able to have TETWP
in 2020,” said Casey
White-Zollman, co-chair
of the Round-Up’s TETWP
campaign, in a press release.
“That’s why we’re so appre-
ciative of Let’er Buck Cares,
OGGB and all of the com-
munity members who have
continued to support oth-
ers, including TETWP and
breast cancer awareness,
despite the challenging cir-
cumstances we’ve faced this
year.”
TETWP not only raises
breast cancer awareness to
the thousands of visitors
who come to the Round-Up
each year, but 100% of the
proceeds stay within the
Pendleton community. The
two organizations benefit-
ing from the TETWP cam-
paign help local breast can-
cer patients from time of
diagnosis through recov-
ery. The Kick’n Cancer pro-
gram provides free mas-
sage, personal training and
Pilates classes for recov-
ering patients, while the
St. Anthony Cancer Care
Clinic provides breast pros-
thetics, mastectomy bras,
post-op camisoles, lymph-
edema sleeves, pads and
gloves, mastectomy swim-
wear, wigs, financial help
and mileage reimbursement
for cancer patients.
“COVID-19 may have
kept us from holding our
annual TETWP event and
traditional campaign, but it
didn’t stop the needs of the
St. Anthony Cancer Care
Clinic and Kick’n Can-
cer New Beginnings,” said
Jill Gregg, co-chair of the
Round-Up’s TETWP cam-
paign. “We’re so thankful
we can continue to support
them this year thanks to
the generous donations we
received.”
Though 2020 was orig-
inally to be TETWP’s 15th
anniversary, the celebration
of 15 years of TETWP will
instead take place in 2021
with an even bigger cam-
paign and event. The Pend-
leton Round-Up will support
this celebration in numer-
ous ways, starting with
the annual bumper stick-
ers with the 2021 Pendleton
Round-Up and Happy Can-
yon dates on them in bright
pink. Get yours for free at
the Pendleton Round-Up &
Happy Canyon Retail Store
while supplies last.
Anyone interested in
serving as a 2021 TETWP
sponsor, or who would like
to donate or volunteer, can
contact event co-chairs
Casey
White-Zollman,
cmwzollman@gmail.com,
or Jill Gregg, jill.c.gregg@
gmail.com.
Kudos to our post offices and delivery workers
DR. ANDREW
CLARK
A SLICE OF LIFE
I
n 1959, my brother sent
a birthday card to me.
I was born on his ninth
birthday and he probably
wanted a choo-choo train
— not a squalling baby
brother! In 1960, I sent it
back to him. I’m 80 now,
he is 89, and that card has
gone back and forth for 61
years. Each year we put a
note of something signifi-
cant that has happened —
this year it came to me and
he had written “My year
to become a great-grandfa-
ther: (to twins).
In 1964, I went to Tan-
ganyika (now Tanzania)
with the Peace Corps and
was stationed in quite
remote areas — livestock
veterinarians don’t live
in cities. The card came
through to those out-of-
the-way places. In Sum-
bawanga my address was
P.O. Box 2, which indi-
cates the size of the town.
Barbara and I continued
working in East Africa
for another 16 years, some
in a very remote small
town across the Seren-
geti in North Masailand
— the card was delivered.
I worked several years in
Cairo and in Nairobi —
the card arrived. And now
back in the U.S., what hap-
pened to the card? It came
through, of course, just a
few days ago, for the 61st
time.
That birthday card has
traveled hundreds of thou-
sands of miles, crossing
over the oceans at least 20
times and another 40 times
between various places
in the U.S. — and it has
never been lost. I find this
astounding. And it speaks
Josephy Center for Arts and Culture/Contributed Photo
“Mocha,” by Linda Reichenbach.
Andrew Clark/Contributed Photo
This birthday card has traveled back and forth between Andrew Clark and his brother for 61
years, faithfully delivered each year by postal carriers in the U.S. and around the world.
loudly to the efficiency and
dedication of postal work-
ers around the world.
I think we, here in
Pendleton and through-
out Eastern Oregon, have
the best post offices in the
United States. I actually
like to go to the post office.
The people manning — no,
womanning — the front
desk are good natured,
pleasant, efficient, and
work with the customer
to make sure you get the
best price for sending your
package. They are a quint-
essential model of what the
United States Postal Ser-
vice (USPS) means — it is
a service, not a for-profit
business, and they behave
like the original image of
the Pony Express: ”The
Mail Must Go Through!”
Have you considered
what it takes for something
you send in the USPS to
get from where you send it
to the destination address
you put on that envelope
or package? If it is to an
address in the U.S. it’s
quite straightforward —
ZIP codes are magic. But
when the letter is traveling
internationally, especially
to developing nations,
that’s an entirely differ-
ent situation, beginning
with the mode of transport
over oceans to the recip-
ient nation (how do they
get paid for their services
when we buy the stamps
here?), and then through
the sorting and transport to
the addressed person (me)
in some outback village.
When you go into our
post office here in P-town,
Salvie and Linda and Lu
and Barbara and Car-
olyn, and occasionally
Damon, will be right there
to help you get your let-
ter or parcel to wherever it
goes. Kudos to them! And
behind them in the guts of
the building are all those
other people, about 30 of
them, packing the outgoing
mail, sorting the incoming
mail, and loading it into
the carrier vehicles to be
brought to your mailbox
or door. Kudos to them as
well!
We live on a rural route.
Our carrier is Pam, a very
happy, pleasant, and help-
ful person. She delivers to
our mailbox and, if a pack-
age, brings it to our house.
In the cold and the rain and
snow her car window is
open for hours each day as
she puts mail into the hun-
dreds of boxes along her
extended, circuitous route
and frankly, I worry about
her health. But she carries
on in good form and does
the job — The Mail Must
Go Through! — and it
does, by Pam and a whole
bunch of other carriers.
Additionally, the situa-
tion is the same for FedEx
and UPS people — all
making sure that you get
your package as quickly as
possible, regardless of the
weather or driving or other
delivery conditions.
I think we all owe a
debt of gratitude, espe-
cially during the Christ-
mas holiday season when
there are so many par-
cels to be delivered, to our
postal workers and other
delivery workers, from the
managers to the carriers
and everybody in between.
It is a long line of dedi-
cated people who make life
a lot easier and happier for
customers and recipients.
More power to all of them
for their service.
———
Dr. Andrew Clark is a
livestock veterinarian with
both domestic and interna-
tional work experience who
lives in Pendleton.
Josephy Center
to open animal
companions exhibit
East Oregonian
JOSEPH — The Jose-
phy Center for Arts and
Culture, 403 N. Main
St., Joseph, will present a
new exhibit, “Who’s Your
Buddy?”, opening Jan. 6,
2021. The theme celebrates
the relationship between
humans and their spe-
cial animal companions
through art.
Artists submitted works
that range from special por-
traits of their special buddy
through a variety of medi-
ums: photography, painting,
clay and wood. This exhibit
features 32 local and out-
of-town artists including
Ellen Morris Bishop, Jen-
nifer Hawkins-Connolly,
Ed Pitts and Aimee Jung-
mann, and 11 student artists
from the Joseph Charter
School: Claire Webb, Abi-
gail Dundas, Mary Hell-
inger, Marley Hutchins,
Kallie Michaelson, Rylee
Meyers and Myka Row-
den and more. Art varies
from photographs, painting
and drawing, ceramics, and
writing.
Due to COVID-19, the
center will not have a recep-
tion, but will have a Brown
Bag (date to be announced),
a People’s Choice award
(in-person and online) and
a virtual slide show on the
center’s website, www.jose-
phy.org. Visitors can enjoy
the show in-person, but
masks are required.
In a press release,
Curator René Fleming
remarked, “I really wanted
to highlight the special
companions in our lives
through an art exhibit at the
Josephy Center. Whether
it’s a horse, a cat, a hamster
or a dog … these animals
provide a connection that
enriches our lives, no mat-
ter what age we are.”
Those wishing to view
the exhibit can visit the
Josephy Center or view
the exhibit online at www.
josephy.org, starting Jan. 8,
2021, and running through
Feb. 22, 2021. Center hours
are noon-5 p.m. Mon-
day through Friday, and
noon-4 p.m. on Saturday,
or call 541-432-0505 for an
appointment.
COMMUNITY BRIEFING
Tunesmith Night to
feature livestream
round-robin concert
ENTERPRISE — The
Wallowa Valley Music Alli-
ance is bouncing back with
the continuation of its 15th
season of Tunesmith Night, a
showcase of original music.
In partnership with the
historic OK Theatre in down-
town Enterprise, the WVMA
will continue presenting this
much loved program as a
livestream online. The event
can be viewed Saturday, Jan.
9, 2021, beginning at 7 p.m.
at https://wvmusicalliance.
org/tunesmith-night.
The Jan. 9 program will
feature songwriters Mere-
dith Brann, Travis Ward and
Bart Budwig.
The unique appeal of pre-
senting three songwriters,
sharing their original work
in an intimate a round-robin
format will remain core to
the program, as the musi-
cians will be performing
live, safely distanced, on
the beautiful stage of the old
OK.
The show will be
streamed live to YouTube
and the Music Alliance web-
site, and also shared on other
social media. Since there
will be no in-person audi-
ence permitted at this time,
viewers will be encour-
aged to show their support
for the program via online
donations.
Local businesses
receive tribal
CARES grants
MISSION — Nearly 40
Tribal member and locally
owned businesses received
grants totaling $250,000
this month from Nixyaawii
Community Financial Ser-
vices (NCFS) to aid in recov-
ery efforts.
In November, the Board of
Trustees of the Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation (CTUIR) allo-
cated money from CARES
Act funding to NCFS to sup-
port local businesses, artists
and artisans, and contractors
through the challenges of
the current COVID-19 pan-
demic. By Dec. 18, the full
amount had been awarded to
38 grant recipients.
In a press release, Dave
Tovey, executive director of
NCFS, stated, “We are for-
tunate to be part of national
and regional networks of
Native CDFIs and benefit
from the idea itself as well
as the methods they use to
support their communities’
small businesses. Because
these CARES Act resources
have an end-of-year sun-
set, we were driven to pull
together an immediate
grant program in November
knowing we could help in a
small way to keep local busi-
nesses and business people
going and maybe brighten
their Christmas.”
NCFS
continues
to
research
services
and
resources that may be con-
tained in other COVID-19
relief legislation in order to
channel needed assistance
to the community’s private
sector.
Qualified grantees who
received awards ranging
from $5,000-$10,000 include
Maranatha Mobile Massage,
Sundown Grill & Bar-B-Q,
Kanaine Apparel and Acces-
sories, Waterlily Botan-
icals LLC. Natural Skin
Products, Attitude Market-
ing, Brigham Fish Market,
Brigham Fish ‘N Chips, Cut
It Again Sam, Red Crane
Records, Whitney Minthorn
Photography, Ruby’s Indian
Craft & Supplies, Wal-
ters Photography, R&D
Construction Company &
Daughter LLC, Rockin’
Teepee Beadwork and Tra-
ditional Clothing, Charles
Wood Inc. Native American
Music and Performer, and
Mission Music Project.
— EO Media Group