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COMMUNITY MyEagleNews.com Wednesday, November 27, 2019 A7 Keeping the legacy of giving alive Carrie Young Memorial planned Dec. 6 By Rudy Diaz Blue Mountain Eagle The Carrie Young Memo- rial Dinner and Auction highlights the generosity of the people in Grant County and continues to grow after 26 years. Lucie Immoos, a For- est Service employee, cre- ated the event in 1993 to honor her older sister, Car- rie Young, who was killed in a car crash. When Young passed away, the family learned that she purchased gifts each Christmas for resi- dents at Blue Mountain Care Center in Prairie City, where she worked. “She had been purchas- ing Christmas gifts out of her own pocket for peo- ple who didn’t have much family,” Immoos said. “She didn’t have much money herself, but she did it anyways.” The death of her sister devastated Immoos, but she wanted to carry on. “I thought to myself, ‘Am I gonna bawl and be devastated and bawl and bawl?’ or let’s do some- thing good in her memory,” Immoos said. In September 1993, Immoos walked out of Bear Valley fire office with an idea of having a memo- rial in honor of her sister to carry on the tradition of giv- ing. She pitched her idea to Eagle file photo A suitcase display case with goodies at the 2018 Carrie Young Memorial. Eagle file photo Lucie Immoos, who organizes the Carrie Young Memorial Dinner and Auction, with her granddaughter Laikyn Hammon at the John Day Elks Lodge at the event last year. the workers in front of the office and Dorman Gregory, who still donates money for the memorial to this day, handed Immoos the first $50 for the memorial. It started with $50, but in 2018, the dinner and auc- tion raised $31,000. With the money raised by the dinner and auction, Immoos makes sure that everybody receives some form of heat through the purchase of heating sup- plies such as furnace oil, propane and firewood. Funds raised also go toward groceries and other needed supplies for hundreds of elderly residents. Residents at Valley View Assisted Living, Blue Mountain Care Center, Mothers Creek senior home and more around the county receive a sizable gift certifi- cate that goes toward grocer- ies at Chester’s Thriftway or to pay the electric bill. “Now I’ve raised so much money, when nursing homes go to each patient, they can ask what do you need and what do you want?” Immoos said. “For the people with no family we get all of their toi- letries, sheets and towels, but we always try and get them something fun.” Immoos continued by talking about an elderly lady at the nursing home that would go down to the kitchen for a margarita. “By God, if I live old enough to be in the nurs- ing home and still want to have a margarita at night, I think she should have it,” Immoos said. “I made sure she had her little margar- ita mixer waiting for her for Christmas.” This year there are a wide variety of items up for grabs for the auction. At the moment, there are 200 auc- tion items including 130 themed baskets. Such items like an etched elk horn, hunting and camp- ing items, University of Oregon game tickets, a beef basket with a $100 gift cer- tificate plus 40 pounds of hamburger, a load of wood and more are up for bid. John Day Mayor Ron Lundbom attended the event last year and was left in awe at the amount of baskets Eagle file photo Shoppers look over the nearly 300 gift baskets at the Carrie Young Memorial Auction at the John Day Elks Lodge in 2018. and donations the memorial received. “I walked around for 30 minutes with my mouth open,” Lundbom said. “There were so many bas- kets and the thought put into each basket was incredible. 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