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“I love how the community pulls
together, but make it more well known to
people,” she said. “I’m sure other parents
are going through (this).”
To form school supplies lists at Herm-
iston School District this year, staff from
each elementary school met with Bryn
Browning, assistant superintendent, to
pinpoint what supplies were most neces-
sary for each grade level district-wide.
This year, the district was able to lessen
the burden on parents through purchasing
agreements with different companies and
will be providing Clorox Wipes and extra
Kleenex tissues for students. The dis-
trict also recently moved away from hav-
ing parents purchase headphones individ-
ually, to having parents pay $3 for ones
provided by the school.
According to Browning, this move
helped to eliminate the difference in size
and quality of headphones among stu-
dents, as the district will be purchas-
ing almost 3,000 pairs of headphones for
grades K-5.
Browning said local partners donate
and fundraise for school supplies, which
are dispersed yearly across the five ele-
mentary schools in the district for students
who can’t provide items on the school
supply list.
The Hermiston Church of the Naza-
rene recently wrapped up a school sup-
plies drive for Rocky Heights Elementary
School.
“We’re just collecting it here in the
church,” said office manager Gabrielle
Fritz. “We know school supplies are get-
ting expensive.”
On Aug. 24, the Hermiston Educa-
tion Foundation will be hosting a run
called the Back to School Supply Dash
to gather school supply donations for ele-
mentary and middle schools in the dis-
trict. The entry fee for the event, which
starts at 9 a.m. at the Hermiston Church
of the Nazarene, is either $5 or $5 worth
of supplies.
Lacey Sharpe, principal at Stanfield
Elementary, said that her school receives
donations from larger entities like the
Walmart Distribution Center, and from a
local church that donates backpacks full
of supplies.
Investing in classroom sets of common
supplies helps alleviate the burden for
teachers and parents too, she said.
“We’ve been able to cut our lists back,
which has been helpful for families,”
Sharpe said. “Once you have a class set
of scissors, you don’t need them on the
list anymore. Schools really appreciate
the things parents buy to help support
their kids in the classroom. We utilize
everything.”
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on classroom supplies. The data is cur-
rently being re-evaluated, but a previous
finding from the same survey shows that
during the 2006-2007 school year, 92%
of teachers in rural areas spent and aver-
age of $407 yearly on supplies for their
classrooms.
Nationally, different campaigns are
being launched to gift teachers school sup-
plies from wish lists created on Amazon.
On the community Facebook page
What’s Happening Hermiston, teachers
from Umatilla to Union counties are link-
ing their lists on a thread where commu-
nity members are interested in helping
out.
They’re looking for everything from
pencils and desk organizers to books and
visual aids — things that make a class-
room a habitat for learning — but that the
untrained eye might not think twice about.
Faircloth said she doesn’t blame the
schools for the lack of available funding.
And she doesn’t blame parents either.
“I would like to see a program where
parents can get some assistance getting
school supplies,” she said. “I feel for
those parents who can’t provide it.”
Jamie Campbell has two children head-
ing to school this month and is concerned
about getting her kids the supplies they
need.
She moved back to Hermiston to care
for her aging father after living in Flor-
ida for eight years. In the past, Camp-
bell said, she’s worked as a receptionist,
but was unable to find a position in the
area. Instead, she’s working at a local dol-
lar store part time. She has back and knee
problems, but that won’t stop her.
“Now that I’m working on my feet, it’s
constant pain but you’ve got to do what
you’ve got to do,” Campbell said.
She said her son, who’s headed to high
school, wants to make sure he has every-
thing he needs. But between her income
and her husband’s Social Security, she’s
not sure she can make it happen as she
continues to pay the rent and put pay-
ments on the car.
“It’s kind of an embarrassment when
all of the kids have their supplies, and
you’re just sitting there,” she said.
She reached out on social media, ask-
ing about what parents who can’t afford
school supplies should do, and some peo-
ple in the community offered to help her
out.
At this point, Campbell’s not sure what
she’ll end up doing. She said she prefers
paying her own way and is hoping to pick
up more hours at work.
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of America organization at a
state level through Hermis-
ton High School.
“Growing up my par-
ents definitely wanted me
to go to college,” Anguiano
said. “I definitely wasn’t a
stranger to any of the sac-
rifices they had to make to
make it easy for me to go to
school.”
Before graduation in
2018, Anguiano applied for
more than 30 colleges. She
said that as a first-generation
college student, the process
wasn’t easy, but she even-
tually settled on Whitman
College.
“In Hermiston, a lot of
people are first-gen,” she
said. “There’s also a lot of
people from low-income
families. I think Hermis-
ton High School pushes stu-
dents to take the right steps
to apply and get into col-
lege. I had to teach myself
everything. I always asked
for help. It’s something that
was hard for me at first. As a
first generation student, you
don’t want to ask for help.
But you have to.”
Nowadays, in addition to
giving campus tours at Whit-
man, Anguiano is also the
First Generation Working
Class intern at her school.
She helps get resources and
create programming for first
generation and working
class students like herself at
Whitman.
This year, for the sec-
ond year in a row, Anguiano
has been a recipient of the
Workers’ Memorial Scholar-
ship from the Oregon Occu-
pational Safety and Health
Division. The scholarship
is for family members of
Oregon workers who have
been fatally injured or per-
manently disabled while
working.
It’s one of numerous
scholarships she’s earned
to help fund her education
through the Oregon Office
of Student Access and Com-
pletion scholarship portal.
“I recommend kids apply
to OSAC,” Anguiano said.
“Without those scholarships
it would have been diffi-
cult for me to do this kind of
work.”
The work Anguiano refers
to involves a bill she’s work-
ing to create with lobby-
ists through her school. It’s
focused on advocacy around
worker compensation.
Last year, she traveled
with Whitman to New York
for the Debate for Democ-
racy National Conference,
where she helped defend
the bill during a legislative
hearing.
“Our school ended up
tying with Pitzer College,
and we won an award for our
advocacy efforts,” Anguiano
said.
This year, she’s helped
procure more funding to
continue advocating for the
bill.
In the future, she’s inter-
ested in maybe running for
political office. Mostly, she
wants to pursue grassroots
work.
“I love doing social jus-
tice work and work with
nonprofits. I know it doesn’t
pay very well, but if I can
just afford to live and do
what I love, I’ll be happy,”
Anguiano said.
Students cash in with good grades
Students from across the region cashed in
on Community Bank’s Earn While You Learn
Program.
A total of 769 student-customers in the
Eastern Oregon and southeast Washington
area earned a total of $18,217 for good grades
in school. In its ninth year, the program is
designed to encourage students in their aca-
demic success by making deposits to Com-
munity Bank Youth Savings account custom-
ers for their good grades.
During the months of June and July, all
Community Bank branches accepted end-
of-the-year report cards from students in
first through 12th grade. For every top
grade in main school subjects, Community
Bank deposited $1 into their Community
Bank Youth Savings Account. The program
rewards students with up to $50 annually.
The total paid out since the program began in
2011 is $114,602.
Community Bank was founded in 1955
by a group of Joseph business leaders as
the Bank of Wallowa County. Since then, it
Photo contributed by Leah Johnson
Gaser Leavitt and Lilianna Castillo of
Hermiston cashed in on Community Bank’s
Earn While You Learn Program.
has grown across the region, including local
branches in Hermiston and Heppner.
For more information about the program,
stop by a local branch of Community Bank
or contact marketing manager Leah John-
son at 541-207-0717, ljohnson@community-
banknet.com or visit www.communitybank-
net.com.
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