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In the news today:
- Boy Scout Derby 2018
- OTEC Premieres Community Programs
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Hey La Grande Alive! In the news today, two new programs from OTEC…
…and an in-depth look at the annual Boy Scout Derby…
…only on your weekly Newsish Roundup, brought to you by…Northwest Furniture and Mattress, Grande Ronde Hospital, EONI, Anything2Digital.com and Les Schwab Tires
Oregon Trail Electric Co-Op has started two new programs to better help their community. OTEC is your locally member-owned power company. And they strive to be an active part of our community.
And they have two new programs designed to do just that. The first is member-to-member. Member-to-member is a member cost-sharing program that is designed to help people when their luck is down and they can’t pay their power bill. Any OTEC member who signs up for the program can choose to contribute a tiny amount to an assistance fund. Then, when someone can’t pay their bill, those funds are allocated by the board of directors (if they feel like there’s a real need) to help them get back on their feet.
Now, if you choose to participate, you can either round up your power bill to the nearest dollar, or just choose to give a standard amount every month. The bottom line is that for less than a buck a month you can help people to pay for their power when they’re down on their luck and the weather looks like this:
The second program is the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. Did you know that Dolly Parton grew up the daughter of a blue-collar subsistence farmer and construction worker? Dolly knew that he was a very intelligent person, but he couldn’t advance in life because he couldn’t read. And so she now that she’s older and, well, really really rich and famous, she has started a program to give free books to kids ages 1-5 to help them learn how to read.
And OTECC has recently adopted this program. Every month, OTEC will send books to the kids of any family in any OTEC county. So if you live where OTEC is if you call sign up your children, your child will receive an age-appropriate book every month until they turn 5 years old. That way they can continue to read and all those mental synapses can continue to grow.
Interested in either of these programs? Get ahold of your local OTEC representative and ask to learn more and maybe even sign up.
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Every year the Boy Scouts go winter camping up at Anthony Lakes. Then the next day, they hold a winter survival school fun day they call the Annual Boy Scout Derby. And this year we got the opportunity to interview multiple of the leaders about the Derby and here’s what they had to say about it.
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And that’s your weekly Newsish Roundup! This video was brought to you by Northwest Furniture and Mattress, Grande Ronde Hospital, EONI, Anything2Digital.com and Les Schwab Tires
We’re going to leave you with some quick informational slide about a fundraiser for the Baker Orpheum Theatre that’s coming up on the 20th of this month. If you’re into the arts, be sure to head over the hill to our sister city and check it out. I’m Will Bowman.
