BUSINESS GIVING.Byline: The Register-Guard Donations Pearl Buck Noun 1. Pearl Buck - United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973) Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Buck Center Inc. has announced it has received a community grant totaling $1,304 from the Fred Meyer Foundation. The grant will help support the center's Families with Special Needs Program, which serves at-risk preschoolers and their parents who have cognitive limitations. The Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation has awarded $177,800 in grants to seven nonprofit groups and schools. The grants include: $150,000 to the Oregon Children's Foundation in support of the statewide Start Making a Reader Today (SMART) program; $15,000 to E3 Employers for Education Excellence to support school partnerships in Weyerhaeuser communities; $3,000 to Boy Scouts of America Noun 1. Boy Scouts of America - a corporation that operates through a national council that charters local councils all over the United States; the purpose is character building and citizenship training , Oregon Trail Oregon Trail, overland emigrant route in the United States from the Missouri River to the Columbia River country (all of which was then called Oregon). The pioneers by wagon train did not, however, follow any single narrow route. Council for program support; $3,000 to Education Together Foundation for college scholarships for Junction City Junction City, city (1990 pop. 20,604), seat of Geary co., NE Kans., at the confluence of the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers; inc. 1859. The rail, trade, and processing center of an agricultural and dairy area, it grew as the supply point for nearby Fort Riley, High School students; $3,000 to Western Rivers Girl Scouts for membership fees for low-income girls; $2,000 to the South Lane School District for the Read Aloud Program; and $1,800 to Willamette Valley Babe Ruth Baseball for improvements to the Eugene baseball complex. OASIS Education Center has received the following gifts in support of its 10th anniversary Senior Role Model Breakfast: $2,500 from Laurel Pines Retirement Apartments; $1,000 from the PeaceHealth Center for Senior Health, SELCO SELCO Southeastern Libraries Cooperating SELCO Ships Electronic Configuration File Community Credit Union and Valley River Center/Macerich; $500 from Apria Healthcare, Cascade Manor, OASIS Leadership Funders' Club, Managed Healthcare Pharmacy, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Group, Umpqua Bank; and $300 from Avamere Health Services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract , Inc., Bert Carnahan, Bi-Mart Health Solutions, Collette Vacations, Good Neighbor Care, Guaranty RV Centers, Home Instead Senior Care, Marquis Care at Springfield, OASIS Advisory Council, Pacific Continental Bank, Pinnacle Healthcare, Inc., Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon, Riverpark Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Sheldon Park Assisted Living as·sist·ed living n. A living arrangement in which people with special needs, especially older people with disabilities, reside in a facility that provides help with everyday tasks such as bathing, dressing, and taking medication. & Memory Care, The Ulum Group, Vail Dunlap & Associates Promotional Products, and Willamette Oaks Retirement Living. Hamilton Construction, a Springfield bridge and highway contractor, has donated $2,500 to Agnes Stewart Middle School Stewart Middle School' is the name of some schools in the US:
Siuslaw Bank has contributed $25,000 to the city of Oakridge toward the building of an amphitheater in Green Waters Park, and $5,000 to the Pleasant Hill Foundation, earmarked for the Pleasant Hill High School stage fund. Girl Scouts of Western Rivers Council has received the following grants: $5,000 from the Chambers Family Foundation for technology upgrades; for the Camp Cleawox improvment project, $1,500 from the Eugene Rotary, $5,000 from the Robert P. and Ann B. Booth Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation, and $6,000 from the Ford Family Foundation. Northwest Community Credit Union has raised $6,650 at its 12 branches, including $1,250 in Eugene and Springfield, to benefit the Start Making a Reader Today (SMART) program. From April 18 to April 23, the credit union donated $5 to SMART for each customer who opened a new account. Beverage Recyclers of Oregon Co. has agreed to contribute $40,000 over four years to support BRING Recycling's capital campaign for a new $1.8 million Planet Improvement Center in Glenwood, set to break ground this summer. The recycling company is a cooperative owned by local bottlers and distributors: Pepsi Cola Bottling Co. of Eugene, Premier Distributors Inc., Mount Hood Beverage Co., Western Beverage Co. and Columbia Distributing Co. The Oregon Automobile Dealers Association, in conjunction with the National Auto Dealers Association Foundation, have donated a second "Resusci Anne" mannequin training unit, valued at $999, to the Willamette Pass Ski Patrol. The unit will allow ski patrollers to train other volunteers to administer CPR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Definition Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure to support and maintain breathing and circulation for a person who has stopped breathing (respiratory arrest) and/or whose heart has stopped (cardiac to skiers who suffer heart attacks. St. Vincent de Paul Vin·cent de Paul , Saint 1581-1660. French ecclesiastic who founded the Congregation of the Mission (1625) and the Daughters of Charity (1633). Society of Lane County has received the following gifts and grants: $1,500 from FabTrol Systems Inc. for the First Place Family Center; $500 from the St. Martin de Porres Trust and $1,656 from Oregon Charitable Check Off funds for the prescription drug prescription drug Prescription medication Pharmacology An FDA-approved drug which must, by federal law or regulation, be dispensed only pursuant to a prescription–eg, finished dose form and active ingredients subject to the provisos of the Federal Food, Drug, program; $657 from OSPIRG OSPIRG Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group toward a new heating system at First Place Family Center; $250 from Soroptomist International for the resident services program; $500 from Oregon Community Credit Union; and $1,000 from the R.W. Family Fund. |
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