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In 1989, Richard Peralta began a small chimney sweeping company in Canby, Oregon in order to help support his growing family. Richard started the business on a part-time basis to provide extra income for his family of eight, while working full time for UPS. After five years of hard work and dedication to his customers, he was able to leave his day job and pursue the business full time. Richard built the business from the ground up by providing dependable, quality service that is still trusted to this day.

Thanks to his incredible dedication to the craft, integrity, and impeccable customer care, Richard’s business quickly grew into the chimney repair and cleaning company that carries on his legacy today. Many of Richard’s first customers are still with Chimcare LLC today, along with their family and friends.

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As they have grown, Chimcare has expanded with additional locations in order to service the greater Portland and Seattle areas.

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In 2005 Richard’s sons Jesse and Daniel took over the business.

While these two keep Chimcare running, Richard now dedicates his time to community outreach projects that he is passionate about. Jesse and Daniel remain committed to not only keeping up with the level of service that their father provided for many years, but working to exceed it. They want to go above and beyond for each and every customer.

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They are proud to carry on the Peralta family tradition of providing exemplary chimney care for you and your home. If you have any questions or want to inquire about their services, you can visit their website at www.chimcare.com, or call them at 971-367-0990.

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While the “H.U.N.K.S.” part of their name may lead some to speculate that it’s a description of their employees, it is in fact an acronym for “Honest Uniformed Nice Knowledgeable Service.” The College H.U.N.K.S. mission aims to go above and beyond what you would normally expect from your typical moving and junk removal company, and works to provide exceptional service that leaves clients feeling satisfied and taken care of. The Happy Valley franchise offers donation pickups and general labor assistance in addition to the company’s signature fast, friendly moving and junk hauling services.

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This Strawberry Dump Cake is sure to be the sweetest part of your summer! Top with fresh strawberries for a truly easy and delicious dessert! You’re going to love this easy dump cake recipe!

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2 Cans Strawberry Pie Filling 1 Box Yellow Cake Mix 1 Stick Butter DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Spray your baking dish with cooking spray to start.

3. Add your canned pie filling into a 9x13 baking dish.

4. Sprinkle the dry cake mix evenly over top of the strawberry filling.

5. Thinly slice the butter and add to the top of the cake mix.

6. Bake for 40-45 minutes until the cake is golden brown.

Serve warm and topped with vanilla ice cream or whipped topping.

You can have a blast with dump cakes! Substitute cherry pie filling, or make a chocolate strawberry dump cake, a peach dump cake, and even a strawberry cheesecake dump cake. Simple ingredients make for one of the easiest dessert recipes that you can easily change up! recipe reprinted from www.allthingsmamma.com/strawberrydump-cake

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Origins

The first Father’s Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910 in Washington State. However, not until 1972—58 years after Mother’s Day was made official by President Woodrow Wilson—did Father’s Day become a national holiday. The campaign to celebrate fathers didn’t have the same enthusiasm as celebrating mothers–maybe because, as one florist explained, “fathers haven’t the same sentimental appeal that mothers have.”

On July 5, 1908, a West Virginian church sponsored the nation’s first event honoring fathers, a Sunday sermon in memory of 362 men who had died in the previous December’s explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah. But it was a one-time commemoration and not an annual holiday.

The next year in Spokane, Washington, a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd tried to establish an official holiday for fathers. She went to the YMCA, local churches, business owners, and government officials to garner support for her idea, and she was successful! On June 19, 1910, Washington State celebrated the first statewide Father’s Day, and the holiday slowly spread. In 1916, President Wilson honored the day by using telegraph signals to unfurl a flag in Spokane when he pressed a button in Washington, D.C. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge encouraged state governments to observe Father’s Day.

Controversy and Commercialism

Strangely, many fathers and men criticized the holiday! As one historian wrote, they “scoffed at the holiday’s sentimental

attempts to domesticate manliness with flowers and gift-giving, or they derided the proliferation of such holidays as a commercial gimmick to sell more products–often paid for by the father himself.”

During the 1920s and 1930s, a protest movement formed to demand a single holiday instead, called Parents’ Day, in place of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. Each Mother’s Day, pro-Parents’ Day groups protested in New York City’s Central Park. Parents’ Day activist and radio performer Robert Spere commented, “a public reminder that both parents should be loved and respected together.”

The Great Depression, however, deflated these protest efforts, as retailers and advertisers redoubled their efforts to make Father’s Day a “second Christmas” for men; promoting neckties, hats, socks, pipes and tobacco, golf clubs and other sporting goods, and greeting cards. At the breakout of WWII, advertisers argued that Father’s Day honored American troops and supported the war effort. After the war, Father’s Day was still not a federal holiday, but it became a national institution.

In 1972, in the midst of his arduous presidential re-election campaign, Richard Nixon made Father’s Day an official national holiday. Today, economists estimate that Americans spend more than $1 billion each year on Father’s Day gifts. In other countries–especially in Europe and Latin America–fathers are honored on St. Joseph’s Day, a traditional Catholic holiday that falls on March 19. In the United States and elsewhere, Father’s Day 2022 will occur on Sunday, June 19.

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