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SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2015
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FESTIVAL:
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to pick lavender, buy lavender
products and try lavender-in-
fused food and beverages,
while enjoying live music,
an art show, a car show, a
quilt expo and more. Peo-
ple can taste lavender beer
from Hermiston Brewing
Company and wine from
Sno Road Winery.
The festival costs $10
for general admission and
$12 for wine and beer tast-
ing admission, and all of
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tha’s House, a homeless
family shelter operated by
Agape House.
Dave Hughes, the ex-
ecutive director of Agape
House, said the shelter
opened in 2013 and has ca-
pacity for eight to 10 fam-
ilies. He said families can
stay for three to six months
to get back on their feet
and about 75 families have
used the shelter.
“We’re able to graduate
about 60 to 70 percent of
our people into more tra-
ditional living, basically
other apartment complexes
in town,” he said. “We’ve
been moderately success-
ful.”
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wife of almost 25 years,
Kelly, said he is fortunate
his job as an electrician
with ShelCo Electric makes
it possible to do that.
Schwirse,
however,
didn’t stop at attending his
sons’ activities. With his
love of coaching and his
sons’ love of sports, he has
taken a much more active
role. From Grid Kids foot-
ball, to AAU basketball to
Little League and youth
baseball, Schwirse has
stayed active in his sons’
lives as their coach.
“For a lot of people it
doesn’t work, this sports
all year round, but for us,
it’s just a family thing,”
Schwirse said before Little
League practice Thursday.
Hughes said some of
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adopting structure, such as
getting up in the morning
and looking for work, so
they are taught the skills to
help them in the future. He
said they are required to
look for work and volun-
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tions to build social skills.
“It helps return some
people who are burden-
some to society back to be-
ing productive members of
society,” he said. “If they
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get a job, they become pro-
ductive members of society.
That’s the biggest thing: We
hope to make people part of
the community so they feel
there is a reason to be part
of a community.”
Hughes said funding
from the Lavender Festival
helps pay for all of the ne-
cessities, such as 24-hour
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sewer and electricity. Last
year, he said, the festival
donated more than $7,000.
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we encourage people to
come enjoy the festival
and ensure we can contin-
ue to serve the community
through this program,” he
said.
Pola Galindo created this lavender-inspired glass boot for the
Purple Ridge Lavender Festival. Galindo will display her work
at the festival, and art show director Jan Beitel said Galindo
will be donating this boot for a rafÁe drawing at the festival.
“It’s what we do. That’s
kind of what our life re-
volves around.”
While many children
would rather not spend so
much time with their par-
ents, Sam Schwirse said
he doesn’t mind having his
dad as a coach.
“I like it because he’s my
dad, and it’s a lot easier to
talk to him about stuff,” he
said. “ I like it better that
he’s my coach because he
coached all my brothers,
and I wanted him to coach
me.”
Sam said, however, his
father is a lot tougher on
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than he is at home. He said,
at home, his father is re-
laxed and likes to have fun
and watch sports on TV.
“I like to see him yell
at the TV when someone
makes a mistake,” he said.
His oldest brother, Ty-
ler, said their dad is a great
coach and father. Like Sam,
he enjoyed having his fa-
ther coach him, although he
admitted they would “butt
heads at times.”
“He’s my dad. He’s kind
of one of the people you
want to please the most,”
Tyler Schwirse said.
Tyler
agrees
that
Schwirse is a tougher coach
than father, although he
said Jeff will quickly step
in when he sees one of his
sons following the wrong
path. Otherwise, Tyler said,
Schwirse lets his sons “be
kids.” As a coach, however,
he said his father demands
a lot from his players, add-
ing they have to give 100
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or they won’t be there at all.
“He wants you to be
the best you can be on the
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Lavender
Festival art
show
A variety of artists will be show-
ing their work, and some will
be selling it as well at the sixth
annual Purple Ridge Lavender
Festival.
Artists include:
• Gayle Weatherson, Silver
Thistle Design, jewelry
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SEAN HART PHOTOS
Several varieties of lavender line the rows at Purple Ridge
Lavender Farm, which will host a festival from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
June 27.
• Melissa P. Stradley, Photograph-
ic Art & Sports Photography
• Pola Galindo, Pola’s Glass Art
• Laurie Ellis, Unicomer Designs,
paintings and face-painting
• Jan Beitel, Jan Beitel Studio
Gallery, watercolor and acrylic
paintings
• Brandi Dayton, paintings
• Tina Murphy, 2 Cool Creations
Jewelry
• Virginia Harris, watercolor
paintings
• Ken Harris, photography
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assistant coach on his dad’s
Little League team.
Schwirse agrees he
wants his athletes to do their
best, but he doesn’t think
his coaching and parenting
styles differ too much.
“I try to stay pretty much
in the middle as both a par-
ent and a coach,” he said,
adding, however, he has
learned a lot since he began
coaching Tyler.
Schwirse said he thinks
coaching has made him
a better father, too, be-
cause he can more easily
put things into perspective
when things go wrong. He
said sometimes his teams
will lose, but, win or lose,
it’s still a game, getting an-
gry and yelling and scream-
ing doesn’t help. He takes
the same approach as a fa-
ther. He knows his sons are
going to make mistakes at
times — it’s a part of life.
“You just don’t start
screaming and yelling and
getting mad,” he said. “You
just deal with it and move
on.”
Tyler Schwirse, who
is following in his dad’s
footsteps as an electrician,
said, as much of an impact
as his father has had on his
sons, he has also played a
big part in a lot of other
athletes’ lives through the
years.
“It’s been a lot more than
his kids that have grown
up with him,” Tyler said.
“At one point or another, a
lot of the high school kids
have played for him. He’s
been a part of a lot of kids’
careers.”
Schwirse said that is one
of the things he has enjoyed
about coaching — getting
to know his sons’ friends
and watching them grow
up.
“You stick pretty close
with a bunch of them,” he
said.
Schwirse said his sons’
love of sports has made it
easier for him to connect
with them, and he is for-
tunate in that regard. He
also said sports has made
his family “a lot tighter”
because all the boys attend
each other’s games and
cheer for and sometimes
heckle their brothers.
“They’re good kids.”