WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2019
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HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A11
Bunk Bed Build
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
Morgan Hafen 15, (left) and Michelle Fonper, 15, sand boards to prepare them to be made into
bunk beds. Most volunteers spent time sanding and preparing lumber to prevent slivers and
clear away any markings on the wood.
Bishop Kelly Taylor, of the Walla Walla 1st ward operates a drill press to make holes to assemble
the bunk beds during a Sleep in Heavenly Peace event put on by the Hermiston Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
Heidi Mickelson (right) instructs Brayden Sudbrock, 14, (left) and Braydy Hutchins, 15, on how
to assemble a headboard for the bunkbeds. Mickelson is one of the co-founders of Sleep in
Heavenly Peace.
Elsie Zaugg, 13, (left) and Jacee Thompson, 13, remove a freshly stained bunk bed headboard
from a bath in wood stain.
By JESSICA POLLARD
STAFF WRITER
Around 350 youth gathered in The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints church parking lot last Friday
afternoon and set to work, building bunk
beds under the heat of the midsummer
sun.
The goal was to construct 30 bunk
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beds, all exactly the same, to be deliv-
ered to area children ages 3 to 18 who
are in need of a proper place to sleep. The
event was organized by the Blue Moun-
tain chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace,
a national nonprofi t organization, and
held as part of a regional “youth confer-
ence” for the church.
Some of the supplies showed up late,
but the group was still able to complete
their goal. Five of the beds were deliv-
ered the same day to local families who
had requested them.
“It went awesome. The kids were
really hard workers and I wasn’t sure
we’d get them all done, but we did,” said
Heidi Mickelson, who founded SHP with
her husband in 2012.
Elsie Zaugg, a soon-to-be freshman
from Pendleton, spent part of the day
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staining bunk bed headboards.
“It’s the right thing to do,” Zaugg said.
Zaugg said she’d never built a bunk
bed before. This was the case with many
of the youth volunteers — coming from
La Grande, Pendleton, Walla Walla,
Baker, John Day, Boardman, Heppner
and Hermiston — who were shown by
SHP organizers how to sand, stain, cut,
and drill wood into beds.
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