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Bowling leagues aid Columbia County veterans Originally published in The Chronicle Vol. 140 Sept. 28, 2022 HERB SWETT chronicle1@countrymedia.net
Veterans in the St. Helens and Scappoose area who demonstrated a need for financial aid received $50 Fred Meyer gift cards from an association of bowlers Friday at the Fred Meyer store in Scappoose. The project was developed to help veterans who had financial setbacks such as job losses. It was a first-time occasion for what Rebecca Pickering, one of its organizers, said she hoped would become an annual event. Pickering is assistant manager of the St. Helens chapter of the United States Bowling Congress (USBC). Members of the Ameri-
can Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts in St. Helens and Scappoose were involved. The qualification for receiving a gift card was a need for financial assistance, Post Commander David Sleighton of the Scappoose VFW said. “We have to vet them a bit,” he said, explaining that gift cards would keep veterans focused on their needs, with cash donations less likely to be used effectively. “We collected the donations from our local bowlers to come back to the veterans in Columbia County,” Pickering said. She added that all the bowling leagues at Oregon Trail Lanes in St. Helens have donated for the gift cards, with donations totaling $1,075, all of it local. Pickering said all the leagues at Oregon Trail Lanes in St. Helens have chipped in.
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Members of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars stand with Rebecca Pickering, center with blue shirt, before receiving Fred Meyer gift cards donated by local bowlers.
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The $9 million is designed to ease the affordable housing and child care crises for Oregon families in need.
approved $9 million to help low-income families with affordable housing and child care. The funds will go toward the Early Learning Affordable Housing Co-Location pilot program to support gap financing for affordable rental housing projects that
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are co-located with child care or early learning centers, according to a release from the Oregon House Democrats. “Parents of young children – especially single moms and women of color – can struggle to maintain steady work without afford-
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able housing or child care,” Representative Ricki Ruiz (D-Gresham) said. “This is an opportunity for us to drive down the cost of living and provide economic stability for Oregon families so children can learn in safe environments without interruption.”
The co-location pilot program is designed to make it easier for low-income families and communities in poverty to access critical resources by eliminating barriers and creating supportive networks. A report this year from the Low Income Investment Fund and ECONorthwest on behalf of Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) and the Early Learning Division (ELD), showed co-locating child care and early education with affordable housing can make neighborhoods more family-friendly, improve families’ economic growth, promote healthy child development, all while responding to the severe housing and child care shortages. “Too often low-income and BIPOC communities face compounding inequities that make it nearly impossible to live healthy and fulfilling lives – from lack of housing and child care to inadequate transportation or healthy food,” Representative Andrea Valderrama (DOuter East Portland) said. “I’m excited to see how this pilot program helps to break cycles of poverty and ensures people in need have community and are
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