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ASTRA Club sparkles with service project
By TAMMY
MALGESINI
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — Fami-
lies and children impacted by
foster care in Oregon recently
received a helping hand from
the ASTRA Club of Pendleton.
The Pendleton High School
youth service club is spon-
sored and supported by Altrusa
International of Pendleton.
According to a press
release from PHS, club offi -
cers Lucy Oyama, president;
Kyle Liscom, fundraising
committee chair; Kendall
Moore, vice president and
service committee co-chair;
and Ethan Harrison, service
committee co-chair; wanted to
explore opportunities to obtain
a grant. Additional funding,
they determined, would allow
the club to engage in a larger
service project.
During their first board
meeting in the summer of
2021, the group discussed
several ideas. After further
investigation, they reconvened
and Liscom shared informa-
tion he learned about Every
Child Oregon.
Originally called Embrace
Oregon, the initiative began in
Ronda Thornburg/Contributed Photo
Kyle Liscom, Pendleton High School senior, helps pack an
Every Child Oregon Flash Box on Feb. 7, 2022, as part of an
ASTRA Club project.
2012 to provide support to the
Oregon Department of Human
Services Child Welfare, which
oversees the foster care system
in the state. One of the projects
features “fl ash boxes,” which
are 12-gallon totes that are
fi lled with a variety of items,
such as puzzles, board games,
arts and crafts supplies, batter-
ies, gift cards for restaurants,
stores, movie theaters, bowling
alleys and other activity-based
venues. In addition, necessi-
ties, items for foster parents
and nonperishable foods or
snacks can all help fi ll a box.
The boxes are distributed to
foster children and their foster
families through Every Child
Oregon.
“We talked about it and
decided that the Every Child
Oregon Flash Boxes would be
able to reach the most people,
involve many of our own
members in making a diff er-
ence and would serve our own
community,” Oyama said.
Charging forward, Liscom
completed the grant appli-
cation. After it was submit-
ted, the Altrusa International
Foundation awarded the club
$1,700 to help fund the major-
ity of the project.
“He had never written a
grant before but he did a great
job with that,” said Debbie
McBee, ASTRA advisor and
a member of Altrusa.
Using the grant money
and an additional $300 in club
money, the students purchased
items to create and fi ll fl ash
boxes. On Feb. 7, ASTRA
Club members met and assem-
bled 10 boxes for the project.
Since Every Child Oregon
is a statewide program, Oyama
said ASTRA members could
be providing help to families
that live locally — making
the service project seem more
significant because it could
impact someone in their neigh-
borhood or school.
“Sometimes doing a proj-
ect like this opens students’
eyes to the needs outside of
their own little bubble,” she
said. “And I believe that many
students will begin to under-
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stand that serving others in
need is something they can do
easily.”
ASTRA is an acronym
for Ability, Service, Training,
Responsibility and Achieve-
ment. The local ASTRA
Club, founded in 2005, is the
largest service group at Pend-
leton High School. McBee
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Climate group heats up with
global warming program
PENDLETON — Catherine Macdonald
will provide an overview of the Oregon Global
Warming Commission during the upcoming
Climate Conversation Program hosted by the
Eastern Oregon Climate Change Coalition.
Macdonald, the commission chair, also is the
U.S. natural climate solutions director for The
Nature Conservancy. She will discuss several
recent commission projects and share how
people can get involved.
Held virtually, the free program is Tuesday,
March 15 at 7 p.m. Those interested are invited
to request the Zoom login information by email-
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The global warming group was estab-
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commission is charged with providing biennial
reports regarding progress toward meeting the
state’s greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.
Referred to as EOC3, the local coalition
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the changing climate. The group provides an
opportunity to share an open and respectful
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8 A dmi s s i o n
Fr e e P a r k in g
March
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March 26, 1929 - February 25, 2022
walking, shopping, art galleries, museums,
concerts in the parks and enjoying many
cultural experiences that Portland has to
offer.
Her favorite genres of music were jazz,
Big Band and pop, and she
loved going to Portland
Symphony Pops concerts.
She traveled throughout the
United States and abroad.
She played the game of
bridge for over 50 years
and participated in multiple
bridge clubs. She was an
avid Portland Trail Blazer
fan and followed a variety of
sports teams.
Marguerite was a member
at St. Michael the Archangel
Catholic Church in Portland for 35-plus
years. She volunteered at their community
service programs, including their food
pantry. She moved to Beaverton in 2017
and became a member at St. Cecilia
Church. She was a supporter of numerous
charitable organizations.
Marguerite was preceded in death
by her parents; her brother, Larry
(Rosemary) Moore, formerly of Salem,
Oregon; sister, Mary (Francis D.
“Fritz”) Squires, formerly of Longview,
Washington; and her sister, Patricia (Joe)
Standerfer, formerly of Pendleton, Oregon.
Marguerite is survived by five nieces,
four nephews, two great-nieces, four great-
nephews, two great-great-nieces and one
great-great-nephew.
Crown Memorial Center in Tualatin
will be providing the arrangements. Private
interment will be at Olney Cemetery
in Pendleton. Graveside service will be
scheduled at a future date in Pendleton.
Memorial remembrances may be made
to Society of St. Vincent de Paul, P.O. Box
42157, Portland, OR 97242-0157.
The family would like to thank the
Brighton Hospice nurses and staff for their
wonderful care, kindness and compassion
shown to Marguerite during the last few
weeks of her life. Thank you for your
professional support and dedication to
your patients.
Thank you to the staff at the Edgewood
Point Assisted Living Community for
their dedication, hard work, daily care and
support they provided to Marguerite for the
past five years. All of your efforts in taking
care of Marguerite are truly appreciated.
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Marguerite Evelyn Moore
Marguerite Evelyn Moore, 92, died
peacefully on Feb. 25, 2022, in her home
at the Edgewood Point Assisted Living
Community in Beaverton, Oregon.
Marguerite was born in Heppner, Oregon,
on March 26, 1929, to Walter
E. Moore and Georgia M.
Loughney Moore. Her
parents moved the family to
Pendleton, Oregon, in 1934.
She attended St. Joseph
Academy in Pendleton from
the first through 12th grades.
She was the valedictorian of
her high school senior class.
Music was bred into
Marguerite and her siblings
by their mother. Marguerite
and her two sisters learned
the piano, all learned to sing and harmonize
with one another. Marguerite’s mother was
the Chief Hostess volunteer at the USO
during WW II. Marguerite and her two
sisters performed at the USO for the troops
that came through Pendleton, enjoyed
dancing with them, playing piano, singing
on and off stage and hosting them at her
parents’ home.
Marguerite attended the University
of Oregon and majored in business
administration. She married James
Chisholm in 1952. They resided in
Hermiston until 1957 when her husband
was transferred to Salem.
Marguerite worked for the state of
Oregon at the State Capital in Salem for
many years during the Governor Mark
Hatfield and Governor Tom McCall eras.
She was the personal and confidential
secretary to the Director of the State
Department of Finance who was appointed
by and reported to the governor. She held
several executive secretary positions
while working for the state. She moved
to Portland in the early-'70s and was
employed by Sedgwick James in the
Commercial Lines Dept. until she retired
in 1996.
Marguerite cherished spending time
with family and especially with her nieces
and nephews. She had a great sense of
humor and loved a good joke. Her interests
were reading, including the newspaper,
and staying apprised of local, national,
and world news and politics. In her earlier
years, she liked going out after work on
outings with friends and co-workers,
exploring Portland, dining out, dancing,
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“We have a truly amazing
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amazing things to help people
locally and internationally,”
she said.
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