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  • Thanks for helping with charity quilts; we're still working

    Evelyn Russell|Mar 7, 2018

    Some 18 ladies turned out to tie quilts for World Relief and the Omak Support Center. Many thanks to each of them and to the ones who work at home. At this time, we together have finished 51 quilts and decided to continue into the first two weeks of March. The World Relief quilts will go anywhere in the world where there is a great need or a crisis, and the Support Center quilts will stay here in this area, either in the center itself or will go with families in crisis. The center services our area and are on call. We also keep two or three...

  • Thanks to volunteers and backers of free food event

    Evelyn Russell|Jun 4, 2014

    The 2nd Harvest Thrivent Food Truck was at Zion Lutheran Church May 30th handing out 7,584 pounds of food to 215 families. It took 26 helpers to keep up with handing out products. The Washington Beef Council furnished three-pound roasts and a person to pass them out. The $400 to bring the truck here was paid for by the Grant County Thrivent Board with helping hands project (our helpers). It took a lot of people working together, as all volunteer projects do. A big pat on the back and many thanks to all volunteers; without them these different...