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From Bulgaria to Baker City spreading love of education
“In the countryside,
nobody will knock on your
door and try to show you
some educational books,” he
said.
That’s why he decided to
travel from Bulgaria, a coun-
try of about 7 million resi-
dents in the Balkan region of
the southeastern European
country, to Baker City.
“I like the area, I like the
mountains, I like the people,”
Ivanov said.
His passion for education,
he said, comes from his own
family.
“I come from a very
educated family in Bulgaria,”
Ivanov said. “Education is a
priority for me.”
In his hometown of
Pazardzhik, his grandmother
taught kindergarten for 10
years and was a librarian for
another 20, while his mother
has been teaching for 28 years.
And Ivanov is quite
educated himself.
He has two bachelor’s
degrees — one in busi-
ness administration and
one in tourism — from two
Bulgarian universities, and
he’s working on his master’s
degree in marketing and
management from a third
university.
To pay for all those
degrees, he sells the books.
It’s his sixth summer
working with Southwest-
ern Advantage, a Nash-
By CLAYTON FRANKE
Baker City Herald
BAKER CITY — This
summer, some parents of
young children in Baker
City will smile and wave to
a tall young man dressed in
a light-colored polo tucked
into his shorts and carry-
ing a binder of educational
pamphlets.
The man is Stoyan “Tony”
Ivanov, Baker City’s newest
peddler.
He traveled a great
distance to offer his wares,
coming to Baker City from
Bulgaria.
“I see my clients around a
lot,” Ivanov, 28, said recently,
waving at a woman as she
passed through the drive-
thru window while he paid
for a drink at the Little Pig
restaurant on 10th Street.
About a month ago,
Ivanov moved from Bulgaria
to Baker City for the summer
with a cultural exchange visa,
and his work has already
fostered ties to the commu-
nity. He recently received
his official peddler’s license
from the city, allowing him to
do his job — go door to door
each day selling educational
materials to families.
Ivanov said his goal is to
provide educational resources
to people in rural towns who
might not have access to these
resources otherwise.
Tony Ivanov/Contributed Photo
Tony Ivanov poses with members of the Phipps family in Baker City, one of his customers as a
door-to-door peddler of educational books.
ville, Tennessee, publishing
company that employs
college students from more
than 200 campuses around
the world to visit Amer-
ican towns to sell educa-
tional materials. And in his
six years, Ivanov has been
around — he has peddlers
permits in about 40 Ameri-
can towns — from Colorado
to Iowa to Washington to
Idaho to Oregon.
This is his third summer
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working in the Beaver state.
“Oregon is the best place
I’ve worked so far,” Ivanov
said. “I love Oregon.”
He said he also loves his
job, though it’s not always
easy.
“Believe it or not, it’s a
hard job,” he said. “A lot of
rejection, hot weather, rain,
even snow last year.”
He said he works 12 to
13 hours every day except
Sundays, and meets with 20
to 30 families per day. His
gratification, he said, comes
from interaction with clients.
“Seeing those people
have something that would
save them time on home-
work, help them go to college
and get good scholarships,
that’s the main reason I’ve
been doing the job for six
summers,” Ivanov said.
Those families that do
talk with Ivanov have the
chance to interact with a
student of relative status in
Bulgaria. Ivanov represents
his university on the national
student council in Sofia, the
nation’s capital. He’s one
of 11 students on an exec-
utive team that works with
officials like the Bulgarian
Prime Minister and Minis-
ter of Economics on educa-
tion and other social issues.
What makes Ivanov’s
presence even more unique
is that another book sales-
man from the program won’t
be back for at least 10 to 15
years.
And people in Baker City
who buy Ivanov’s books
have another connection in
Bulgaria to look forward to:
he plants a tree back home
for each one of his clients.
He’s planted 3,105 trees so
far.
Ivanov will leave Baker
City in mid-August to work
in Burns for a month before
heading back to Bulgaria.
He said he doesn’t know if
he’ll work selling books for
the seventh straight summer
next year.
But he does plan to
become even more educated
— with another master’s in
marketing and eventually a
doctorate, so he can become
a college professor.
“I love education,” Ivanov
said. “Education can get you
from one state to another or
from one country to another.”
New time capsule placed within an
Oregon Trail marker in La Grande
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LA GRANDE — A piece
of paper currency may be the
talk of La Grande a century
from now.
A $1 bill was placed in
a new time capsule at 110
Walnut St. on Thursday,
June 30, with other items in
the time capsule space of the
stone marker first installed
by Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra
Meeker in 1906.
The marker is the same
one opened on June 23 and
found to be empty before a
crowd of about 150 people.
Many had thought the time
capsule space in the marker
would have contents dating
back to 1906 because Meeker
mentioned it in his journals.
The $1 bill was put in
the marker’s time capsule
space along with an Oregon
Trail brochure, a copy of
the Overland Journal (a
quarterly publication of the
Oregon-California Asso-
ciation) plus items that are
or recently have been inte-
gral parts of our daily lives,
including two face masks, a
COVID-19 home test kit and
an iPhone.
Most of the new materi-
als in the time capsule were
placed in a protective bag.
Now they must withstand the
touch of Father Time’s corro-
sive hand.
“We do not want it opened
Ronnie Allen/Contributed Photo
A $1 bill is one of the items included in the time capsule of a
1906 Oregon Trail marker June 30, 2022, in La Grande.
for 100 years,” said Ronnie
Allen, of La Grande, an
Oregon Trail historian who
helped lead the effort to have
the new time capsule items
placed within the stone
marker.
Dale Counsell, of La
Grande, who also helped
Allen set up the new time
capsule project, said a seal-
ant was applied to the area
where the stone marker was
attached to its foundation.
The sealant should help
protect the contents of the
time capsule.
The stone marker is
among at least 35 Meeker
set up along the Oregon Trail
during the three journeys
he made across the United
States to promote efforts to
preserve the overland route. It
was one of three Meeker put
up in Union County. The two
others were installed at lower
and upper Ladd Canyon.
Allen says he now has
evidence indicating that
the Walnut Street marker
was made from lava flows
underlying the north flank of
Sugarloaf Mountain, about
9 miles northwest of La
Grande. An analysis of the
stone the marker was made
from was completed by the
Baker City field office of the
Oregon Department of Geol-
ogy and Mineral Industries.
The testing conducted
in June indicates that the
marker was made from rock
that is identical to the stone
the one at lower Ladd Canyon
was made from. Allen earlier
had the stone from the lower
Ladd Canyon marker tested
by the same office, which
determined it likely came
from Sugarloaf Mountain.
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