Golf benefits

Boys & Girls Club

Mahalo nui loa (thank you very much) to everyone who made the Citizens Bank Hawaiian Golf Classic benefiting the Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis a success. Thank you to our event sponsor, Citizens Bank, as well as sponsors Barker-Uerlings Insurance, Ryan Sparks, DMD, Timberhill Athletic Club, El Sol De Mexico and Pepsi. Thanks to our tee and green sponsors and local businesses for providing raffle prizes. Thank you to all of the golfers who played and the Corvallis Country Club for having us. Mahalo to the Hui-O-Hawaii Hula Club at OSU for providing a special performance, and to the OSU cheerleaders for selling raffle tickets. Finally, big thanks to our committee members; Beth Buglione, Bill Humphreys Jr., Alan Lanker, Ryan Sparks, Eric Sundstrom, Kate Sundstrom and Todd Washington. All proceeds will be used to provide positive programming for our kids.

Helen Higgins

Boys & Girls Club

of Corvallis

Cornerstone scores shredding success

Cornerstone Associates, a Corvallis-based provider of vocational training and job opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities, recently hosted our first Community Paper Shredding event. We are very thankful to those who contributed to making this event an outstanding success, including volunteers from Citizens Bank of Corvallis, Dutch Bros., the Eckroth family, Cynthia Stevenson, Debbie Griesmeyer and the staff and associates of Packaging Plus, a division of Cornerstone Associates. We also thank members of the community who made generous donations when dropping off their paper! We were pleased to shred more than 7,000 pounds of paper, which will be recycled with a local pulp mill. We hope to make this an annual event and thank the citizens of the mid-Willamette Valley for supporting this event.

David A. Gilbert

Cornerstone Associates

Arc celebrates dance success

Starker Arts Park showcased The Arc Dance/benefit to support programs for individuals with developmental disabilities. The Arc thanks Karen Emery and the Corvallis Parks and Recreation Division for co-sponsoring the event in this beautiful site. The Flow and Deep Woods bands entertained with music that seemed to chase away the clouds. People with and without disabilities gathered, and together, we let the good times roll!

The Arc thanks organizers Pam and Ben Wald and the myriad of people who volunteered to sell tickets, post information, offer refreshments and share their talents.

Radio Ray Pitts lent his enthusiasm to the door-prize drawings of lottery tickets and donated dolls and teddy bears, swim passes and funny money for The Arc’s thrift stores.

The First Alternative Co-op brought delicious, healthy snacks to share.

Good company, good music, good food and good weather amid natural beauty. What could be better?

Karin Frederick

Corvallis

Family bakes up success for CASA

Our family would like to extend a sincere message of thanks to our friends, neighbors and community members who came out in droves to support our annual bread and cookie sale!

A crowd had formed and patiently waited while we set up the table and shade tent for our sale, and within one hour we sold 675 cookies, 45 quick breads and 62 yeasted breads.

Sales combined with generous donations added up to more than $1,350 for CASA Voices for Children of Benton County.

Thank you so much for your enthusiastic response to our family’s efforts to help others in our community. We hope to see you next year!

Kevin Ewanchyna, M.D.

Corvallis

Cook-off pays off for CASA

The board of directors, staff and volunteers of CASA — Voices for Children would like to thank the Benton County Sheriff’s Office and volunteer Nicole Dodson for donating the funds raised through the Chili Cook-Off to CASA.

Thanks also to volunteers, including Tanya Andersson, Robin Frojen, Libby McCormick, Jennifer Moreland, Drew Robertson, Kim Rogers, Meaghan Schroeder, Tina Truong-Krummel, Liz Ortman and Elizabeth Wyatt. The event raised more than $11,000 for CASA.

Thanks also to the Philomath Police Department, Benton County Mounted Posse, Benton County Corrections, Benton County Parole and Probation, Benton County Sheriff’s Office administration, Chili Cook-Off Committee, Benton County Sheriff’s Office management, Clodfelter’s Public House, Corvallis Community Children’s Center, Corvallis Fire Department, Corvallis Police Officers Association, Parent Enhancement Program, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Zia Southwest Cuisine, Corvallis Benton Chamber Coalition and the family of Shelby, David, Knox and Kraig Nichols.

Joanna Engle

CASA n Voices for

Children