Individual Artist Relief Program
Call for applications! Oregon artists may now apply to a new Artist Relief Program created by the Oregon Arts Commission in partnership with Oregon Community Foundation and the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation. Please share this information with your networks to spread the word about this important responsive grantmaking program. The program supports…
Cooperator’s Update Wednesday 21st October
Sean Davis Sean picked up perishables for the relief center yesterday from the Episcopal Church in sisters. Items to be unloaded at Blue River Relief Center. Alyssa Brownlee People are now connecting with caseworkers for housing and it feels like this will be a good model going forward. Alyssa will continue to work on housing…
Blue River Community Meeting
This morning at Roaring Rapids Pizzeria in Eugene, the unofficial mayor of Blue River, Melanie – “If you don’t know who I am you shouldn’t be eating this pizza” – organized a community meeting for evacuated residents of Blue River to discuss the cleanup, moving back upriver and plans to rebuild. Emily Reiman from the…
Friday 25th – Blue River Residents’ Meeting at MARC
Blue River Residents’ Meeting At 9:00 am this Friday, 25th September at the Expo Center (Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene) there will be a gathering for Blue River Water District members and those in the community directly outside Blue River proper. The meeting has been organized by community leader Melanie Brite, who says the objective is…
Guide to Safe Giving
With many fraudulent fundraisers and GoFundMes popping up on social media it is vital you check that you are donating to a legitimate and worthy cause. To ensure a charity or group calling for donations in the wake of the fires is correctly registered you can easily search the Oregon DOJ’s Charitable Activities database here….
Upper McKenzie Distribution Center Now Open
Residents on the east side of the Holiday Farm Fire can now access essential goods and services at the Upper McKenzie Community Center. There are large quantities of food, clothing and other supplies available for evacuees. In addition, a clinic is being organized in front of the quilt shop (across from Takoda’s) and a Verizon…
Let Your Friends Know You’re Safe!
If you live in and around the areas affected by the Holiday Farm Fire, please take a moment to visit the official Facebook page and mark yourself safe. Once you do, Facebook will also give you the option to see which of your Facebook friends have already marked themselves as safe and to prompt those…