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Wenatchee– The land where dreams become reality.

Joel Frank, President of Equilus Group Inc, was born and raised on a large ranch in Southeast Oregon where he learned from a young age the value of hard work. His upbringing and life experience have shaped Joel to be very astute in business and finance. In 1997 Joel met Rhonda, his devoted wife and the love of his life. In a season of change, with renewed vision and hope for the future, Joel moved his family to Wenatchee in 2005. They quickly fell head over heels in love with this area. The view from every direc�on is beau�ful and diverse.

Wenatchee is a land of opportunity, sharing it’s boun�ful produce with the world. The public schools enhance our children's lives with opportunity to grow and thrive in the arts and sports. Living in this community enriched their Joel and Rhonda Frank pictured with their family at Hydro Park. Photo by JP Portrait Studio. lives with a deeper faith, a stronger family, and many treasured friends. This is the fer�le soil out of which their dream has grown and is becoming a reality. What is this dream?

Joel and Rhonda’s dream is to build a legacy; a sustainable, genera�onal model where all the players thrive and to make a posi�ve impact in our local communi�es. Inspired by the successful business model of Cole Capital, which was a start-up business just 22 years ago and sold for $2.55 Billion in February 2018; Joel sought guidance from his business associate and mentor, Michael McIntyre, the Managing Principle of Cole Capital at that �me. Michael was very instrumental in helping Equilus Group become a registered NASDAQ equity firm; for which they own Michael a debt of gra�tude. With a solid business plan in mind and opportunity in reach, Joel launched Equilus Capital Partners, LLC in 2017, with Paul Bondo, a Commercial Real Estate Broker. Equilus Capital Partners sources, analyzes, and procures income-producing real estate ventures. The real estate is held in a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) which allows investors to own a stake in the real estate, benefit from the capital apprecia�on and deprecia�on, and receive their share of 90% of the income produced by the property; without the hassle of trash, toilets and liability. Equilus Capital Partners, LLC is right on track with the dream as it con�nues to grow and expand.

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Hilton Garden Inn employees clean windows at Wenatchee’s Colonial Vista. (Page 40) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints missionaries help with a move to a new home (Page 26) Cashmere teachers: giving students what they need to learn (Page 6) Two neighbors lead a cleanup (Page 10) Turning glass bottles into sand (Page 36) World photos

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Editor’s column

Getting it done

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his magazine is about the Lucy Montoyas of our hometowns.

About the people who see a need and then take action — sometimes small, sometimes big, always important — to make a difference. To get it done.

Sometimes they're well known, like Montoya, who we said goodbye to in March 2019 after her death at age 99, late the year before.

A few years back, Montoya won the city of Wenatchee's social justice award. As we reported when she received her LUCY MONTOYa award: "She told the audience that working for justice is not difficult — a person just needs to show up."

Read Rufus Woods' article on Montoya at the back of the magazine.

It's as fine a way to close out a report on getting it done that I can think of.

In between this page and that one are stories about more of our neighbors.

Many of the stories are pegged to Make a Difference Day, an annual celebration of serving others that has been going on in the Wenatchee Valley since 1992 and that is now part of the DNA of our community.

It was a logical place to start in the first year of a magazine about the good things we all do for our community. Some of the reports come from the pages of The Wenatchee World because we take pride every day in trying to report on what’s happening in our community. And so much of that is good.

As you flip through the pages, you will think of someone whose story should be told. Our home town is full of these stories. Maybe it's you or your organization or the place you work. Maybe it's someone you know.

This is where you can make a difference with just a little showing up: Send us their name and story. Or better yet, maybe you’ll think of a need you want to tackle.

Now’s the time. Get it done. We'd love to tell that story.

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Teachers embracing Cashmere’s culture of creatively meeting student needs

By Rufus Woods

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was curious to know how teachers and staff were responding to the Cashmere School District’s focus on meeting the needs of kids beyond normal school activities and Superintendent Glenn Johnson was kind enough to share an email he received from Vale Elementary teacher Ginny Davidson.

“It’s a typical request that demonstrates the staff commitment to ‘closing gaps’ for our kids,” Johnson told me, and added that “Ginny is an exemplary example of this heart for kids.”

‘Hi Glenn!

I wanted to tell you that yesterday I was talking to one of my students and she told me that she is homeless because the last place she lived wasn’t safe for them to live.

I woke up this morning thinking about her and prayed about how I can make a difference in the lives of these kids. Soooo, I have a favor to ask...

I have been wanting to make a Kid’s Closet for 3 years, but keep getting bogged down with where to put it.

Thanks to Sean (McKenna, the principal) and Richard (Anderson, the custodian), I have been given space on the stage and am ready to have my 4th grade leaders help me with managing it.

What I need is two big, tall shelves. One for boys clothes and one for girls. I’d like to have two dowels connecting the shelves, where we could hang coats and stack shoe boxes with shoes and boots.

Is it possible that I could have Cashmere Cares buy the shelves and possibly bins to keep the clothes in?

I would really love to have a place where our kids can come for clean clothes and new shoes. It might also be nice to stock with blankets?

I’d love your thoughts. Thanks Glenn!”

This heart for children is something that I see in so many local teachers with whom I interact. What makes a great teacher is not technical expertise but a love for kids and a commitment to inspiring them to be their best and that often means dealing with kids in difficult circumstances.

It seems to me that when districts encourage a mindset of meeting the needs of students and empowering teachers and staff to look for opportunities to go the extra mile when a need emerges, that’s when magic happens and lives are changed. Teddy Roosevelt once said that “Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” In this era of school reform and an emphasis on testing and measurement, what seems to be missed by politicians, the public and some administrators is that the heart of the job is finding a way to help kids develop a love of learning. That’s the mark of a great teacher.

I believe that finding creative ways to encourage and support teachers in making these kinds of heart connections with kids as a way to foster a love of lifetime learning is far more important than how kids score on a standardized test.

I tip my hat to Ginny Davidson and the rest of the teachers and staff in Cashmere for what they are doing to create those meaningful relationships.

Ginny Davidson meets with a fourth-grade reading group at Cashmere’s Vale Elementary School in October.

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Christi Maroney, executive director of TOGETHER! for Youth, stands outside John Newbery Elementary School in Wenatchee.

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In their words:

Christi Maroney: TOGETHER! for Youth — Parenting with Love and Logic

By Bridget Mire World staff writer

Christi Maroney

• Event: Parenting with Love and Logic class • Position: Executive director, TOGETHER! for Youth

Q: Tell me how you ended up here today. How did you find out about this?

A: We work with the Wenatchee School District and family advocates to put on parenting classes that are offered throughout the year. They’re

at different elementary schools, and it’s a free parenting class that gives free daycare and free food for parents to come learn about how to better parent their kids.

Q: There are lots of ways to make a difference. Why did you choose this one?

A: We are a prevention organization, so we deal with substance use, we deal with bullying. Life skills to make them able to resist temptation into bad behaviors. We make a difference this way because it’s one of the only programs that gives parenting advice to the public for free without any other kinds of requirements. There’s no Medicaid

requirement or anything like that. …

It’s been proven that if you educate parents the proper way, then kids are at less risk in the future.

Q: What do you hope to achieve?

A: We hope to achieve better parenting for our kids. Our mission as an organization is to promote the health, safety and success of our kids in the future. This is a great way to do it. It’s also a great service to the community since it’s completely free of charge. We work so closely with the family advocates that have been around with the Wenatchee School District for so long and do such a valuable service that

we can reach families that wouldn’t otherwise have assistance to access this kind of program.

Q: Do you have a message to share?

A: No. 1, we do have this fabulous program. It happens multiple times a year, and it’s offered in English and in Spanish. Visit our website at togethercd.org to find out the upcoming dates. Also, remember that parental education is a major factor in your kids’ future. ... At the end of the day, we want to make sure that our kids have healthy, happy, successful futures without the presence of substance use or other negative behaviors in their lives.

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Neighbors help create a cleaner community

By Tony Buhr

World staff writer

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ENATCHEE — The residents of the Methow Street neighborhood got together on Make a Difference Day to beautify their neighborhoods by getting rid of junk and debris.

Two women in particular made an effort to connect to their neighbors and tell them about the opportunity

to dispose of unwanted items: Norma Valdovinez and Beatriz Elias. On Make a Difference Day neighbors all down Methow Street and on surrounding roads put items out on the curb to be picked up by volunteers.

All kinds of stuff could be seen from wooden boards to children’s toys.

Vamonos Junk Haulers helped pick up and throw out the items as part of the event, said Teresa Bendito, Parque Padrinos Make a Difference Day organizer.

The two women do not speak much English and they communicated through Norma’s teenage daughter Briseyla Valladolid-Valdovines and Briseyla’s friend Yanira Duran-Tafolla.

Helping clean up the neighborhood creates a cleaner environment for everyone and improves how people look at their community, Elias said.

They want their kids to be able to play outside in a healthy environment.

They also want their kids to be in-

spired to keep making their neighborhoods clean and help out when they get older, she said.

“We’re all neighbors and we are all united,” Elias said. “Together the union makes the force,” that can get stuff done.

Both Valdovinez and Elias were very important in connecting the neighbors together and letting them know about Make a Difference Day, Bendito said.

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Norma Valdovinez, left, and Beatriz Elias haul out a microwave oven as they participate in a community cleanup as part of Make a Difference Day on Oct. 26.

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Beatriz Elias, at left and Norma Valdovinez “They are the communicators,” Bendito said.

“They are the ones who participate by letting their neighbors know what is happening, which takes a lot of time to talk to them and make sure they know what is happening.”

This event made a big difference because members of the Hispanic community don’t always have the money or know how to dispose of stuff, she said. It can be unclear which items go where or can be taken to the dump at all.

“There are a lot of people who could be facing evictions or have a fine for having things outside their homes,” Bendito said. “So that can cause a lot of fear for the families as well.”

The people were really interested in beautifying their neighborhoods, though, because of the Methow Street park renovations, she said. They wanted to make their homes and yards as clean and nice as the new park will be.

“We focus in this area because of the park renovation considering there will be a lot of people coming, celebrating and visiting the park once it is open,” Bendito said. “The neighbors have said they want to make sure their homes look nice and are excited about that renovation.”

Beatriz Elias hauls out items to take to the garbage during a community cleanup

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Stefanie Maughan (left) with the Women’s Resource Center food drive on Make a Difference Day.

‘Making the community stronger’

Women’s Resource Center

By Zach Johnson World sports writer

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ENATCHEE — Originally organized in the 1970s, the Women’s Resource Center of North Central Washington has provided housing and supportive services to women and families in the Wenatchee Valley who are either homeless or living in poverty.

The Center staffs 10 and runs a 15unit “Permanent Supportive Housing” for individuals who are chronically homeless, have a mental disability and

earn less than 30 percent of the Area Median Income. They also own The Bruce Hotel, which helps families and individuals transition out of homelessness — allowing them to live at the hotel and receive services for up to 24 months for a monthly fee and a few chores.

One of their employees, Stefanie Maughan was on the other side of the housing issue as a property manager but made the transition in 2008 after getting an up-close look at the housing crisis in Chelan County.

“I just didn’t like the side of eviction,” Maughan said while helping run

a food drive at Pybus Public Market on Make a Difference Day. “It just broke my heart to be on the other side.

I didn’t want to make other people homeless, I wanted to keep them housed.”

Around that time, the Resource Center advertised for a job as a case manager for permanent supportive housing.

“The job required a different combination of skills but I thought maybe I should apply and did,” Maughan said. “I love working at the agency and focusing on making people’s lives

better. How can you focus on anything else when you don’t have a safe place to live?”

Keeping with Wenatchee’s TenYear Plan to end homelessness, the Resource Center is doing outreach to find potential tenants and secure more living spaces in the community for additional housing. During Make a Difference Day, they ran a food drive at Pybus and collected non-perishable items to take back to their residents.

“We just want to make a stronger community and end homelessness,” Maughan said. “That is the goal.”

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Judi Jenson and Gene Sharratt picked up trash along Badger Mountain Road on Make a Difference Day 2019.

Removing trash to make community shine

By Pete O’Cain

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AST WENATCHEE — Walking along Badger Mountain Road, where asphalt curves through golden fields, a handful of volunteers spend Make a Difference Day removing blemishes from the perch above the Wenatchee Valley.

This particular section of highway above Fancher Heights is a familiar one for Gene Sharratt, a semi-retired educator.

“I hike this road a lot and I’ve noticed it’s getting more and more trash so I thought this would make a good activity for us for Make a Difference

Day to get it all cleaned up before the winter comes,” Sharratt said.

Sharratt was joined by longtime friend Judi Jenson while his brother Guy Sharratt and their nephew David Schoentag collected trash a mile or two down the road.

They started at 8 a.m. The goal was five miles.

“We couldn’t ask for a better day. It’s just exciting, it really is. It’s fun to get out and make a difference and be part of your community,” Sharratt said. “It’s a great community and anything we can do to help lift it up.”

By 9:30 a.m., they’d collected five or six bags of trash and a battery.

“It’s just nice to get it cleaned up

before the winter comes,” Sharratt said.

“And every little bit helps,” Jensen said.

Most of what they find are beer bottles and beer cans.

“Lotta beverages,” Jensen said.

For Sharratt, filling bags with beer and pop cans is a small contribution to the place he lives.

“I think for me, it’s to have a great community we all have to invest in it and our time is the best investment we can make, and it’s an honor to be a part of a community that really wants to make a difference,” Sharratt said. “And if we don’t step up and make a difference, we’re not going to have the kind of community we want to live in.”

That’s what makes the annual day of service special to him.

“It’s a really nice community feeling and spirit, I think, when the community can come together for a common purpose and a common vision,” Sharratt said, “and that vision is to make your community a better place to live and work and raise a family.”

There’s a key word in there, he said.

“I love this word ‘community,’ and it’s because it ends with a five-letter word called ‘unity,’” Sharratt said. “And when I see the word ‘community,’ it’s about unity and Make a Difference Day is a unifying theme.”

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In theIr words:

Charles Riibe — Bikes for kids :

‘I JUST LIKE DOING IT’ By tony BuHR

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harles Riibe runs the Bikes for Kids event during Make a Difference Day every year for 21 years. In 2019 the event was at Kenroy Elementary School in East Wenatchee.

Q: What inspired you to start doing this?

A: Pat Fitzgerald, she was an old teacher at Cascade where I used to work. She asked if I would help one year. Well then she left.

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Q: so why do you keep on fixing up the bikes?

A: Trying to make that little difference. All it takes is a couple of smiling faces and its worth the whole thing. When they come up to you and say, “Thank you!”

Q: so you fix up these bikes yourself?

A: Yes Q: and did you know how to do that when you first started?

A: Oh yeah I’ve been a mechanic for 40 years, working with my dad when I was 6. All I had was junk when I was a kid because we were poor. So I thought, ‘Hey wait a minute. Some little guy doesn’t have a bike right on.’”

Q: do you have any fond memories of doing this? anything cool happen?

A: I gave 19 bicycles away to one family. That was a lot. They just kept coming. They said, ‘Do you have one for my brother and my brother.’ I said, ‘Yeah come on down here.’ Filled the back of the car, fill the truck and had them strapped on the top. And they all left going, ‘Thank you.’

Q: so, all year you fix bikes and then give them away?

A: I’ve got businesses in town they know I do it. So they go, ‘I got something where the brakes don’t work,’ or whatever. You just fix it. It is all simple stuff. Some of these bicycles are brand new.

They’ve never been ridden.

Q: What’s the hardest part of doing this?

A: Nothing. This is just a piece of cake. I just like doing it.

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East Wenatchee Rotary President Shanley Crane participates in a cleanup at the Valley View Cemetery in East Wenatchee on Make a Difference Day.

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Cemetery cleanup ‘just the right thing to do’

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AST WENATCHEE — There are about 65 marked graves in Valley View Cemetery, said Shanley Crane, and another 20 people are believed to be buried there.

Crane is president of the East Wenatchee Rotary Club, which has been helping clean up Valley View. One contribution was having a stone made to honor the people whose exact burial sites in the cemetery are unknown.

Another was getting about 12 Rotarians and six MEChA Club members from Eastmont High School together for Make a Difference Day this past October.

“It’s just the right thing to do,” Crane said. “It’s good for our community, makes us feel good that we’re giving back to our community. In this case, I think it’s a great example for these young kids and they can see ways they can give back later in their life.”

She said the Rotary Club has been helping at the cemetery for roughly 20 years. As far as she knows, the earliest burial there was in 1911.

“There’s a Civil War individual buried here, there’s World War I, World War II (veterans),” she said.

“Many infants because of the mortality rate in the early ‘20s.”

The club has put in new fencing, replaced headstones, repaired concrete, mowed the grass and removed weeds.

“There’s a big gopher problem, so I think we’re going to try to address that, maybe next year,” Crane said.

“But one thing at a time.”

East Wenatchee Rotary has been helping at Valley View Cemetery for about 20 years.

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GIVING BACK

Collecting blankets for homeless

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W

ENATCHEE — Their mission is simple: collect blankets for those in need.

For the Riverview Kiwanis, it’s an uncomplicated task, relatively speaking. Lots of people have spares they don’t use and it’s less intrusive than asking for money.

The benefit goes a long way.

“Most of the blankets go to the homeless and some of the children that are in Haven of Hope and the Bruce Hotel,” said organizer Elaine Hensley. “Some of them are really nice and some of them have been used. And the homeless love them,

especially the wool ones.”

Hensley on Oct. 26 — Make a Difference Day — sat at a table in Washington Park in Wenatchee with club members Janet Mangold and Barbara Beidler. They set up close to Miller Street so motorists could pull over and drop off a load of blankets and be on the road again in a few moments.

“We do this every year,” Mangold said. “We just love this. People are so awesome in their giving.”

The tradition started a decade ago.

“Homelessness is so rampant, especially kids, to make sure that they have something to keep them warm,” Mangold said.

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That’s where the blankets come in.

“We found there was a need for blankets, especially, and warm gloves and scarves,” Hensley said.

She added, “We started with warm things because we picked up gloves and scarves and jackets. But Serve Wenatchee does a real good job with that stuff so we kind of scaled it back a little bit, but people stop by and bring all kinds of things.

And so we just say ‘thank you’ and we find a way to get it to the place it needs to go.”

While the donated blankets stay local, the group also collects and refurbishes old glasses to be sent to third-world countries as part of the Save Old Spectacles program.

“It’s a nice way to get them and to send them out to someone that can use them versus sitting in your house forever and ever,” Hensley said.

So what brings Hensley and her Kiwanis compatriots out year after year?

“If you ask anybody that works for a service organization, you do it because it makes you feel good. It just makes you feel good because you are thankful for what you have and other people don’t really have everything you have,” Hensley said. “And we’re not talking about a lot, we’re talking about just some of the bare necessities.”

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WestSide High School’s Make a Difference ... month

By Ian Dunn

World sports editor

W

ENATCHEE — WestSide High School in Wenatchee takes Make a Difference Day to a new level, extending it a month and in some cases all year.

“Every October in that class, we have Make a Difference Month. We all come up with different activities throughout the building,” said Principal Kory Kalahar. “Each grad team leader throughout the building works with those kids on those

individual activities.”

The school has been doing it for three years and it just keeps growing, he said. It keeps the kids civically minded and active with some actives on campus and others off-campus.

“We’re doing everything from positive rock painting, used clothing for the hope chest, trash clean-up around the campus, positive quote board for students here, collecting pet food, used blankets and towels for the Humane Society,” Kalahar said. As part of the Lunch Buddies program, students

go to Newbery Elementary School once a week.

Kalahar said he is leading a program where kids write notes of kindness and put them on cars in the parking lot.

There are also kindness bowls, a food drive and cards to Vietnam veterans.

“The students that wrote those letters to veterans were pummeled with return letters. They wanted to start correspondence. They wanted to share their stories,” Kalahar said. “Some students got dog tags. Some students got memorabilia from the war. It was these people who didn’t feel honored

WestSide High School principal Kory Kalahar takes a look at students’ posters that are meant to encourage others.

and respected after that war was over.

They are still working through some of that.”

For the most part, the students don’t know much about the Vietnam War. Kalahar said they had to do some prework on that.

Another ongoing program is volunteering at the Wenatchee Valley Humane Society. The kids go to the Humane Society at least once a month to walk the dogs.

Kalahar said the kids are excited about giving back and doing something for the community.

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WestSide High School Principal Kory Kalahar holds up a card that says “Kindness Cures” during the school’s weekly activity to help other people in the community and other students. Students were taping candy to the cards to be given to other students.

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Q: How did you end up here today?

A: The Home Fire Campaign is ongoing through the Red Cross. Today we are partnering with Douglas Count Fire at this event here in East Wenatchee. We are also partnering with Wenatchee Fire for another smoke alarm event in Wenatchee.

Q: How did you start doing this?

A: This is a national Red Cross program. In October of 2014, the program began with a goal to install 2.5 million alarms in homes across the United States. That is about a million

homes they are going for.

Right now, five years into the program, we’re at 2 million alarms installed in 800,000 homes. That is 642 lives saved across the country.

Q: What are you hoping to achieve here today?

A: We’re hoping to inform this community about home fire safety and disaster preparedness. We’re talking about wildfire safety and winter storm safety as well as home fire safety. We want to install a ton of smoke alarms, as many as we can to make this a more resilient community.

Q: Why did you choose this particular location?

A: We’re working with Douglas County Fire District 2. They selected this community as particularly fireprone. We here in a mobile home park, which is generally more fire-prone than a standard house. The homes are closer together and the materials used to build the homes are often more fire-prone.

HaNNaH CHRiSTEN Q: What is the message to share?

A: Everyone should check their smoke alarms once a month and practice their home fire escape plan once

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Helping with a move

By Tony Buhr

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AST WENATCHEE —Tony Toulouse and Char Tolliver needed assistance to move out of the house they were renting in East Wenatchee.

Toulouse has back problems and Tolliver uses a wheelchair and so Catholic Family Charities reached out to missionaries with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who agreed to help move items for the apartment mates.

“What they are doing here is a wonderful make a difference day because it makes a difference to Char and I in a big way,” Toulouse said on the day of the move, Make a Difference Day. Reuben Tang, 18, was one of the Mormon missionaries who helped with the move. Tang has been a missionary for about three months in the Wenatchee Valley. He came from

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Tang talks with members of his church while they wait to remove items from a home.

South Jordan, Utah.

“Pretty much we just talk to as many people as we can everyday and try to share messages about Jesus Christ,” Tang said. “And also we do lots of service too. We try to help people too.”

It’s been a wonderful experience so far for him doing missionary work, he said. It’s a little tough being away

Tang helps lift a heavy footlocker out of the basement.

from his family and friends. Missionaries also give up a lot and have some restrictions, like they can’t date.

“There is just a joy you get when you do service,” Tang said. “ It just feels good to help another person. I think my favorite opportunities is when we’re walking down the street and someone is, maybe they’re pulling weeds and we

just go over there and join them.”

One service activity that has stuck out to him so far is helping a woman clean out her shed, he said. He got the opportunity to talk to her and get her life story.

“And to see how much other people have to go to that’s pretty amazing to me that they’re in the spots they are now,” Tang said. “It just makes me think of how fortunate I am. The circumstances that I have. I have this opportunity to reach out to a lot of different people.”

He chose to do his service work right after high school, because he thought it would be easier to get it done before he went to college, he said. He doesn’t have any regrets about his decision, though. “ Because I’m just serving the Lord and serving other people and I get to share messages about Jesus Christ every day,” Tang said. “So I feel like that sacrifice for two years is worth it.”

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Book project shines light on why

‘Teachers Make a Difference’

By Nevonne McDaniels World staff writer

W

ENATCHEE — Teachers work every day to inspire their students, but gauging the full impact is an impossible task.

“Often they have no idea how much they touch the lives of the students with whom they spend time every day,” said Eldene Wall, who landed on an idea about 20 years ago to help shine a light on some of their successes.

Her “Teachers Make a Difference” book project — the 17th edition will go to print soon — provides students an opportunity to share stories that might otherwise never be told about how their teachers have touched their lives. The books, composed of student essays, are sold to fund two or three scholarships each year for students who want to go on to become teachers.

“It provides a wonderful continuity,” she said.

Wall retired last summer as the executive assistant at the North Central Educational Service District after 29 years and continues to be involved in the North Central Education Foun-

dation, the nonprofit fundraising arm that provides grants for teachers and scholarships for students.

“I had a strong desire to do something that would have an impact upon teachers and students, and came up with the idea of writing a book similar to ‘Profiles in Courage’ after reading how Carolyn Kennedy planned to continue this project in honor of her father,” she said. “I invited students and people from the community to write stories about teachers who had made a difference in their lives.”

She received encouragement to start and continue the effort from a succession of bosses, the ESD superintendents — Gene Sharratt, Rich McBride and Michelle Price — along with Ray Taylor, the then-executive director of Community Foundation of NCW. “Our first book was done as a joint North Central ESD/Make a Difference Day project, and I invited students and people from the community to write stories about teachers who had made a difference in their lives,” she said. “We received many inspiring stories and published the book.”

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Printing costs for the first book were funded by the Community Foundation.

“It was Mr. Taylor who came up with the idea of offering Teachers Make a Difference scholarships, a great idea that resulted in a source of stories, because essays about teachers who had made a difference in the lives of the students applying for the scholarship was a requirement to include with the application.”

The scholarships have been awarded since 2009 through a partnership between the North Central Education Foundation and the North Central Educational Service District.

Wall prepares the stories and photos and does the layout for book each year. She designs the covers and gathers all the information needed for the foreword and dedications.

Wall said not all the teachers know they are the subject of the essays beforehand.

“Teachers are very touched,” she said. “When scholarship awards are presented we always call attention to the teacher the scholarship winner wrote about. I have seen teachers so touched they have tears in their eyes.”

Students’ stories have evolved over the years.

“I have seen stories about teachers helping students in their personal lives increase,” she said. “It seems like students have to deal with not only their own challenges, but also problems of their parents — whether it is divorce, drugs, neglect, financial problems or ignorance.”

She received 18 essay applications for the 2019 book.

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the middle school science education endorsement requirements.”

— Tyler Charlton, Manson “(Dawn McCormick) taught me that one person can change a lot on how you think about life. Making personal connections with every student she has has made all of her students shine in their own ways. She has taught us it’s okay to be yourself and we might not all have the same personalities and back stories we can still all be friends and get along.”

— Andee Hauck, Wenatchee “I was one of those students who just sat in the back and didn’t do anything.

All it took was one teacher to change it all. One Day Mr. Cannada, my science teacher, sat me down after school and gave me a talk that I’ll never forget.

He explained how he could see I was smarter than it appeared but didn’t show it because I was afraid of it. … He looked me straight in the eyes and told me he believed in me and would help me believe in myself too.”

— Itzia Mejia Barragan, Wenatchee “Instead of allowing me to remain stagnant in my education and social

interactions or even atrophy, [my second-grade teacher) pushed me despite my protest. My teacher greatly inspired me and showed me how to continue despite circumstances that I might have allowed to overtake me.

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— Loran Goninan, Eastmont “(My second-grade teacher) did her best to make a tremendous difference not only for me, but for every single

He explained how he could see I was smarter than it appeared but didn’t show it because I was afraid of it. …

He looked me straight in the eyes and told me he believed in me and would help me believe in myself too.”

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not just any teacher would have been willing to offer.”

— Sareena Valeson, Eastmont “I had heard my professor, Dr. Burton, was one to avoid at all cost. Students often called her intimidating and demanding. … It became clear to me that she continually had her students’ best interests at heart, pushing each of

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he would pull them to the side and do whatever he could to lighten the day up for them. … Not only did he make learning fun, but he also cared and made a big impact on students who had him as a teacher.”

— Alondra Guadalupe Chavez, Manson “Mr. Sanchez gives me great advice and always knows how to guide me into the right path. He gave me courage to get out of my comfort zone and explore new ideas, like pursuing a university education. Because of Mr. Sanchez, I have learned so much about higher education and what it takes to accomplish my goals. … I no longer doubt my potential to follow my dreams of higher education.”

— Josefina Gonzalez, Eastmont “(My kindergarten teacher) was very understanding and patient with me when I was learning to speak English, which she made easy because she was always willing to help me. This teacher was the one who introduced me to my very first friend and that is when I first started talking to my classmates. Not only did she help me find a friend, but she also helped me find my comfort at school.”

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In their words:

Lin Stearns — ‘We try to be here to help’

By Reilly Kneedler

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vent: Volunteers gathered on Make a Difference Day to clean up the yard at Cancer Care of NCW’s Our House, which offers out-of-town cancer patients a place to stay while they’re in Wenatchee getting treatment.

Q: Tell me how you ended up here today. How did you find out about this?

A: I’ve been volunteering here for seven years, but before that I worked for Confluence Health in oncology and radiation as a nurse. So I sent those patients here to stay while they’re having those treatments.

Q: There are lots of ways to make a difference. Why did you choose this one?

A: It’s just a really special place. We are really fortunate that people who have to drive two, three hours away have a place to stay. We meet a lot of wonderful people, it warms your heart. And we have a great group of volunteers.

Q: What do you hope to achieve?

A: We want to make it comfortable for those that are coming to stay. It’s a home away from home and we try to keep it that way, very comfortable. We try to be here to help.

Q: Do you have a message to share?

A: It’s a home away from home for those that are experiencing cancer and need to be here for treatment. It’s very welcoming and the community support is phenomenal. We have people all the way up from Omak and down to Moses Lake who donate to the house and bring the food.

We couldn’t do it without that, the community.

Armed with shears and a bucket, volunteer Lin Stearns poses for a portrait during a yard cleanup project at Our House on Make a Difference Day 2019. Our House, which is maintained by Cancer Care of NCW, provides out-of-town cancer patients a place to stay while they’re seeking treatment.

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Brenda Alonso — Glass to Sand

By Zach Johnson World staff writer

• Name: Brenda Alonso • Event: Glass to Sand demonstration at Pybus Public Market • Senior at Manson High School

Q: How did you get started with Glass to Sand?

A: I got started over the summer after a friend, Nadia Verduzco, asked if anyone needed community service hours volunteering at the local farmers market. I went and she asked if I would be interested in helping with the Glass to Sand project, which was started by former seniors Megan Clausen and Devyn Smith a year prior.

Q: What precipitated Glass to Sand and what did you have to do to get started?

A: The recycling services stopped in Manson a couple of years ago so Megan and Devyn set up a GoFundMe account and pitched the idea to various wineries, the rotary and people in the community about purchasing the machine — which crushes glass into sand in a few minutes. After getting enough funds, they purchased the machine for $7,000 and established community connections to get the project off the ground.

Q: What’s your goal this year?

A: We’ve been talking about incorporating more wineries into the project and getting the word out to let people know they can do this in their community or town as well. Everyone should care about glass recycling because it is one of the easiest ways people can help out. It might seem like a small impact but it can pave a way to a world more stable and long-lasting so people can keep living and thriving for years to come.

Q: What do you hope to expand before handing it off to next year’s seniors?

A: We’re hoping to get some interest in juniors that want to expand the project and hopefully talk to Chelan High School to see if they are interested in starting something similar.

We’ll be there to guide next year’s seniors after handing off the reigns and help them map out a vision.

Brenda Alonso demonstrated the glass-to-sand machine at Pybus Public Market.

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Clean, sharp tools: one key ingredient for a healthy garden Master Gardeners help out the community

By ZacH JoHnson World staff Writer

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ENATCHEE — Armed to the teeth with files, WD-40, washcloths and Isopropyl alcohol, Kate Bratrude and the Master Gardener volunteers came ready to work during Make a Difference Day. Over a few hours, Bratrude and a total of eight volunteers labored over their work station, scrubbing and grinding away years of rust and grime off various shears, wrenches, hand trowels and gardening forks.

“We do tool sharpening at the com-

munity education garden at the Tree Fruit Research Center, but we decided it would be great to do something for Make a Difference Day as well,” Bratrude said. “It’s hard to find a place where you can get your tools sharpened in the community and it’s important because if you don’t have sharp tools, you can hurt your plants.”

“Part of our mission is we want people to enjoy their back yard gardens and do a good job, and part of that is having the right tools that are in good working condition.”

A retired nurse, Bratrude got involved with the Master Gardeners in 2009 after her daughter graduated from high school.

“I took the master gardener program and decided that I would seek out a volunteer job that matched my passion and love for gardening,” Bratrude said. “My friend Lois, who

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Kate Bratrude talks with other Master Gardener volunteers at a tool sharpening event at Pybus Public Market on Oct. 26.

I worked with at Central Washington Hospital encouraged me to take the program, so I did in 2009 and have been doing various things through the organization ever since.”

Bratrude's main focus lies with the community garden that sits on the campus of the Tree Fruit Research Center at the corner of Springwater and North Western Avenue, where she

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“I love volunteerism, it’s been a big part of my adult life, but I love the master gardener program because I love gardening and want other people to be able to have success with their yards. It’s a good blend of taking a passion of mine and putting it into community service.”

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Mission House gets a cleanup

By Ian Dunn

World sports editor

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ENATCHEE — The Mission House in Wenatchee is a faithbased house for homeless men looking to get back on their feet.

Mission House, which has been around for over 10 years, houses 13 men.

“This is a place to come as long as you

follow the word and get yourself a job.

Then, this place is for you,” said Mathew Smith, manager of Mission House.

Smith, who is relatively new on the job, said he received a call about people in the area doing cleanup as part of Make a Difference Day. He was told the Boys Scouts or some other group would come to help clean up the yard around Mission House.

Most of the men that live there work during the day, then spend the weekend with their family, so there is not much time left for yard work. People do volunteer through Lighthouse Ministries, which owns Mission House, to come out and give a hand cleaning up the property.

Lighthouse Ministries organizes the cleanup parties, Smith said. Still,

the Make a Difference Day cleanup is much needed.

“It’s important so it is not an eyesore for the neighbors. We try to keep it as clean as we can. We mow and walk around to make sure there is no garbage lying around. To make it look nice is very important to us,” he said.

Smith said this type of project happens every year.

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Ryan Branam, 12, sets up his cardboard shelter in November in Wenatchee during Night in a Box, a fundraiser for Lighthouse Christian Ministries, which runs Mission House. He was part of a group of five boys that raised over $1,700 for the event.

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New business dives into helping out

By Reilly Kneedler

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ENATCHEE — Shag carpets, pink walls and decades-old plumbing — There’s a long list of items assisted-living facility Colonial Vista is renovating in its skilled-nursing building.

“Our building was built in the late ‘50s and we’re going through a lot of renovations right now,” said Cody Jones, an administrator in training. “The outside of the building and the appearance isn’t as important as the inside right now, since it's so outdated.”

That changed this fall when the staff of the Hilton Garden Inn gave the building’s exterior a little TLC as part of Make a Difference Day 2019. The 13-person crew of volunteers washed every exterior window on the one-story building.

It was one of dozens of volunteering events in the Wenatchee Valley. Trails were cleaned up, stockings were made for foster children and pet food was collected for the Humane Society.

The Hilton Garden Inn, one of the newest hotels in Wenatchee, opened in April.

Now that they’ve gotten settled, the staff has been looking for ways to get involved, said interim General Manager Kyle Byrd.

“We’re a new hotel so we’ve been slow to get out in the community, but we’ve kind of ramped out now,” he said. “We’ve been open seven months so we’re ready to get involved. When we saw Make a Difference Day was coming up we thought this would be a perfect opportunity.”

The staff is already planning some more regular events, Byrd said.

“Make a Difference Day will definitely be an annual thing, but our management company, Northwest X Southern, encourages our hotels to get out on a monthly basis,” he said. “So we have a committee that plans things monthly, from volunteering to donation collection. You’ll be seeing us out in the community a lot.”

The team arrived around 11:30 a.m. and set out to work in pairs. With one person manning a squeegee and the other wielding towels, they divided and conquered.

It's a great help for the building’s two-person maintenance team, Jones said.

The task may seem small, but it also matters to the seniors who call Colonial Vista home.

“It makes a huge difference for the residents,” Jones said. “When you get a fresh, clean window and those specs are gone, it opens your eyes to what’s out there.”

This report first ran in The Wenatchee World in October.

A little teamwork goes a long way. Dawn Collings, East Wenatchee, reaches to clean the top of a window from Rollen Fulbright’s shoulders. The Hilton Garden Inn employees were part of a team cleaning the outside of Colonial Vista during October’s Make a Difference Day.

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Staff at the Hilton Garden inn had been looking for way to get involved in the community and Make a Difference Day helped them make that connection.

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Days for girls | Periods no longer a barrier

By Bridget Mire

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AST WENATCHEE — Days for Girls began after founder and CEO Celeste Mergens discovered something while helping at a Kenyan orphanage in 2008.

While the girls were menstruating, they simply sat on cardboard in their rooms. Mergens worked with a company to deliver disposable pads to them, but there wasn't anywhere to dispose of the pads.

Now, Days for Girls produces kits with washable pads. Wenatchee resident Vicki Larson, 67, is one volunteer who helps make kits.

Larson said the kits are distributed around the world, including countries in Africa, the Caribbean and South America. She went to Ghana last January to deliver kits to a school.

"It was a real eye-opener for me," she said. "Actually, Ghana is probably a pretty economically high country in Africa. But this little school, they had 10 classrooms, 10 teachers and

500 students. So it's like 500 kids per classroom."

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in East Wenatchee, of which Larson is a member, held a work party this past October for Make a Difference Day. About 25 volunteers sewed bags and contents for the Days for Girls kits.

Each kit includes underwear, homemade pads, soap, a washcloth, instructions for using and washing the pads, a menstrual chart and a bag for dirty pads.

Larson said the goal is to empower girls and help set them up for success.

"These girls are sitting on cardboard for four or five days of the month," she said. "They're not going to school, so in a few months you get really behind, missing a week a month. And at some point, you drop out of school because you are so far behind. So either you marry someone or you work in the fields, and your education stops. ... It's to help them with their education and to be more productive as women."

Vicki Larson cuts material to make a bag as part of the feminine hygiene kits that were being made during Make a Difference Day.

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Horseback therapy for young and old World file photo/Mike Bonnicksen

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Della Du Lac, a member of the Grace Lutheran Church in Wenatchee, shows off the sleeping mats made of plastic grocery bags. A group of volunteers built several of the mats as part of Make a Difference Day. They were distributed to people facing homelessness.

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Crocheting sleeping mats for the homeless

By Reilly KneedleR World staff Writer

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ENATCHEE — The plastic is cut into strips, tied into long ropes and crocheted together into rectangular sleeping mats.

In a previous life, these were grocery bags. Now they’ll help keep people who are experiencing homelessness off the freezing ground.

They also offer great insulation and can be washed off easily.

The plastic sleeping mats were built Oct. 26 by volunteers from Grace Lutheran Church as part of Make A Difference Day. Once the church finished enough of the mats, they planned to give them to the Women’s Resource Center for distribution.

Church member Della Du Lac, an avid crocheter, built the prototype based on designs she found online.

“About a month ago, I was asked

to help make a prototype or a sample. I had seen them but I’d never made one before,” she said.

“I’ve been crocheting since I was about 7 years old, I would just sit with my grandma for hours and just crochet.”

Using plastic as a medium posed some unique challenges, Du Lac said.

“It’s not as forgiving as yarn, it doesn’t flow as nice,” she said.

“You have to spend a little more time to get it to go where you want it to go.”

It took Du Lac a week and a half and more than 500 bags to build a single sleeping mat. In the past, she’s knit hats for Make A Difference Day, but this year’s time commitment was a step up.

“We’ve had a lot of great volunteers and it think this will be great,” she said. “Hopefully we’ll have a lot of mats to donate to the community.”

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Teaching them to lay back are Wenatchee YMCa staff members Courtney Ulrich and Coby Cruickshank.

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Lucy Montoya: Showing up and getting it done

By Rufus Woods Publisher emeritus

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ENATCHEE — When Lucy Montoya accepted the social justice award from the city of Wenatchee in 2015 on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, she told the audience that working for justice is not difficult — a person just needs to show up.

Montoya, who passed away on Dec. 20, 1999, at the age of 99, was indeed a person who showed up by making countless meaningful contributions to her family, the community, and her church. Her life of service, faith, hope and unfailing generosity provides us with an example to which we can all aspire. She was a quiet and effective community builder Montoya, who was born in New Mexico, married Epimento “Epi” Montoya in 1933. In the early 1940s, they left New Mexico and came to Wenatchee by way of Spearfish, South Dakota, Mansfield and Chelan.

According to her family, the relocation to North Central Washington was a huge shift culturally, economically, politically and linguistically. Epi and Lucy, who moved into a house a block away from their beloved Catholic Church in South Wenatchee, had 12 children.

A woman of tiny stature, she was a giant in terms of her heart for fellow human beings.

It was how she lived and served that stands out as extraordinary and worthy of emulation. In so many ways, she paved the way for countless thousands of Spanish speakers who would come to the Wenatchee Valley.

A woman of tiny stature, she was a giant in terms of her heart for fellow human beings. Wenatchee artist and former educator Terry Valdez remembers his family living in the basement of the Montoya household when his family moved to the valley.

She had a strong moral compass, was quietly forceful when she felt something ought to be done. Her daughter Marian Montoya, who cared for Lucy in her final years, recalled Lucy traveling to Spokane to meet with Bishop William Skylstad (a native

Lucy Montoya in 2015 shares a laugh with Fr. Mauricio Munoz St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Wenatchee.

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of the Methow Valley) and strongly suggested that the church ought to send Spanish-speaking priests to the valley to serve the growing number of Latin American Catholics. Soon after, masses were being held in Spanish.

As Spanish speakers came to the valley, Lucy and Marian found themselves teaching English to the newcomers in the family home. Marian recalled the time that her mother donated the use of Marian’s car so that a newcomer could take his driver’s test. When Lucy saw needs in the community, she didn’t hesitate to step up and find a way.

Businesswoman and philanthropist JoAnn Walker told me that after a local family was deported to Mexico, they worked with Lucy and a local physician to bring the kids back to the United States. The Walkers looked after a couple of the kids, and the physician took care of the others. A rental house Marian owned became their home.

At the end of the Vietnam War, Lucy made sure that immigrants from that conflict, including restaurateur Cuc Tran, were welcomed to the valley. For years, Lucy provided volunteer translation services for local law enforcement agencies and medical facilities.

Smooth skating World file photo/ Mike Bonnicksen

Wenatchee Wild player Chad Sasakiin in January 2019 helps Cub Scout alex Lawton, 8, of Moses Lake as he skates after a Wild game at Town Toyota Center. area scouts and families attended the 6th annual Scout Hockey Night. about 400 scouts and family members attended the game with over 130 scouts spending the night at the Town Toyota Center.

For the church’s Queen of Angels Guild, the diminutive Lucy would pick up fellow guild members that needed a ride and take them to the meetings.

She could barely see over the steering wheel, Marian recalled.

She had a strong moral compass, was quietly forceful when she felt something ought to be done.

With all of the achievements and contributions, Lucy also experienced times of great sadness. But she was never without hope and faith. Lucy was preceded in death by her husband, Epimenio Montoya, her sons Jesse, Fred, Pat, Mike and Ted; infant daughters Gabriel and Anna Marie.

Lucy was persistent, energetic and a consummate bridge builder. “She just didn’t stop at anything,” JoAnn Walker told me.

This report first appeared in The Wenatchee World.

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