FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 18,2013
Neighborhood Center gets neighborly gift
from local insurance company
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The N eig h b o rh o o d
Center in Heppner recently
got a boost in stocking its
Christmas shelves thanks
to the effo rts o f some
local Wheatland Insurance
employees.
The first part o f the
gift was a check for $780
from the Heppner branch.
Nancy Snider of Wheatland
explained that Heppner
W h eatlan d em p lo y ees
brought donations to their
company Christmas party,
w h ich the W h eatlan d
company then matched.
“ T h a t ’ ll p a y fo r
our turkeys, 1 bet,” said
N e ig h b o rh o o d C en ter
director Janice Skaggs,
referring to the boxes of
food the center hands out
to local fam ilies every
year. S kaggs said the
boxes contain everything
for Christmas dinner, plus
some.
“All they have to do is
cook their dinner,” she said.
R ealizing Christmas
is also a time when kids
are hom e from school,
Skaggs said the boxes
also contain a few extras
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for family meals, such as
hot chocolate, macaroni
and cheese, pudding, and
bread and peanut butter for
sandwiches.
So far, the center has
had applications for 66
boxes of food.
A ls o p a rt o f th e
presentation Monday in
H eppner was a couple
hundred pounds of canned
food. Snider said the canned
goods came from both the
Heppner and lone branches
as part of a company-wide
food drive. lone donated 116
pounds o f canned goods,
with Heppner contributing
another 131 pounds, which
the em ployees at those
branches chose to donate to
the Neighborhood Center.
Overall, all Wheatland
branches combined brought
in more than a thousand
pounds o f food, which
every branch donated to a
charity of choice.
Skaggs said she was
delighted with the gift,
which will not only help
fill the Christmas boxes, but
will also help carry them
over into January, when,
Christmas &
New Year
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she said, people still need
Anyone interested in
help but the Neighborhood donating to the center can
Center shelves are often a call 541-676-5024.
bit bare.
Top: Nancy Snider (left) and Kim Bach (right) of Wheatland
Insurance stand in front of a van stacked with boxes of food
as they present Janice Skaggs of the Neighborhood Center
with canned goods and a check for $780. Bottom: A few of
the 66 Christmas boxes the Neighborhood Center is getting
ready to hand out to area families this Christmas. -Photos by
Mallorie Jones
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