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Reform Ride nets $8,000 for refugee assistance

Good morning,

Last Saturday’s Reform Ride for Refugees raised approximately $8,000, according to Allison Pringle, chief organizer. Riders included Pastor Paul, Tom Newlon, Tanya Roe, Marty Dasler and Nancy Wetzler. Thanks to Allison Pringle for organizing and for the many volunteers that included Bruce and Alice McCain for pulling it off. Beneficiaries include Lutheran Community Services Northwest and the Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center.

- Rachel Pritchett, office administrator

Pictured left to right: Tom Newlon, Allison Pringle and Marty Dasler

Hello from inside the Path of Totality

Hi everyone,

Some of my family members and I were lucky enough to be in the middle of the Path of Totality yesterday, in Huntington, Ore., in the very southeast corner of that state. Here’s myself, my husband, Lloyd, and our daughter, Geneva. And here’s the town of Huntington when things were at their darkest.

It took 12 hours to get home yesterday, thanks to a myriad of highway construction projects slowing things down all the way from there to here.

We stayed in the dorms at Eastern Oregon University, and were enjoying La Grande so much we nearly forgot about the eclipse and the Path of Totality, 100 miles south.

Pendleton, La Grande and Huntington are all old railroad towns built on the Oregon Trail. La Grande in the 1860s had six passenger trains stopping there daily. You can still feel the old West now during a stroll downtown.

Man, I had fun.

Rachel Pritchett, office administrator