16 THE CHARBONNEAU VILLAGER June 2020
historical narration on outer deck,
freshly prepared Northwest lunch with
choice of entrée, and live piano music.
Cruise with your Charbonneau friends
aboard The Portland Spirit vessel Friday,
June 5. A deluxe motor coach will
pick up our group from the Charbonneau
Clubhouse at 10:15 a.m. and arrive
on the Portland dock where we
will board the Portland Spirit for an
11:30 a.m. departure. There will be souvenirs
and spirituous beverages available
for your purchase. This cruise on
the Willamette River is perfect for
Portland area natives and newcomers
alike. Are you ready for an exciting
voyage? I know I am!
Free on-site document shredding
Windermere Real Estate and Charbonneau
Country Club are teaming up
to help you with some spring cleaning.
A shredding truck will be stationed behind
the Windermere building for free
on-site shredding of documents June
13 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information,
contact the CCC office or
Windermere. We are not accepting
canned food donations but a check
payable to Wilsonville Food Bank
would be gratefully accepted. Volunteers
will be adhering to safety measures,
wearing masks, and practicing
physical distancing. We will also be
sanitizing as we go.
Please stay in your car until you
reach the unloading area. It is very important
to keep at least a 6-foot physical
distance between you and the volunteers.
There will not be a drug-take back
station at this event. The Emergency
Preparedness Committee will be planning
a drug take-back event in the fall.
Red Cross Blood Drive
As you may know, the need for
blood is constant and patients need
your help.
Please consider making an appointment
to donate blood. By donating
blood you are actively making a difference
in your community, allowing patients
to receive cancer treatment, surgery,
and the gift of life in the case of
an accident or a medical emergency.
Your blood donation provides units of
blood products that are promised to
hospitals. Blood donors report feeling a
sense of great satisfaction after making
their blood donation. Why? Because
helping others in need just feels
good.
� Drive date: Monday, June 22
� Blood drive hours: 10:30 a.m. to
3:30 p.m.
� To schedule your appointment or
for more information, please call
1-800-RED-CROSS or visit www.redcrossblood.org;
Sponsor code: Charbonneau
Jetboating on July 9
Bring a jacket, sunglasses, sunscreen,
and a snack lunch for this fun
river adventure! A two-hour scenic
Jetboat tour is planned, featuring Portland
history, wildlife and the Willamette
Falls. This day trip will happen
Friday, July 9. Tickets are $65 and include
transportation to and from Charbonneau.
This is a thrilling ride so you
will need to sign a waiver, however,
my 80+ year old mother did this and
loved it. We will depart Charbonneau
at 11 a.m. and the tour will begin at
11:45 a.m. from a Portland dock. Tickets
are on sale now and seats are limited.
More information is available in the
CCC office.
Charbonneau
Arts Association
By ERIC HOEM
Time to get creative
with fundraising
In both of the
last two years,
the Charbonneau
Arts Association
has been able to
raise $4,000 to donate
to each of
the art education
HOEM
programs at Canby
and Wilsonville
High Schools. As readers of
this column understand, we have
been successful due to great sponsors
for our annual Charbonneau
Festival of the Arts as well as to generous
support for the silent auction
we hold during the festival.
This year because of the COVID-19
crisis, our prospects are understandably
much lower. The day I wrote this
article, I responded to a survey from
the Oregon Cultural Trust, which
asked what impact the pandemic
would have on our fundraising. My response
was that this year we could expect
a major decline in both sources of
fundraising, and that realistically, it
would be cut by half or more. I felt disheartened
as I considered the prospect.
There are important demands on
the flow of contributions to charitable
organization like ours. We do not come
ahead of food security and housing in a
period of high unemployment. But we
should not be ignored either. Students
in our local high schools continue to
need the best education our community
can provide, and we believe that art
programs play a significant role in a
comprehensive education.
What this comes down to for me is
an opportunity to explore fundraising
opportunities we have not needed in
the past to augment our traditional
sources. Last month I reported on developing
a partnership with Wilsonville
Festival of Art which we hope
will expand the area we draw attendance
from. That is a start, but how
would it improve our prospects for
equaling the fundraising of previous
years?
I had heard that there were programs
where nonprofits could earn donations
from companies we deal with
every day. With a little research, I was
pleased to find that there are two corporate
programs we could start with
immediately: Fred Meyer and Amazon.
Corporate donation programs you
can help with
With your Fred Meyer Rewards
cards, you can go to your online account,
select “Community Rewards” on
the left and then ask that contributions
from the Fred Meyer Foundation related
to your eligible purchases be made
to “Charbonneau Arts Association.”
This contribution does not detract
from any of your benefits in the Fred
Meyer Rewards program.
A similar option exists at Amazon
whereby a portion of your purchases
will be donated to Charbonneau Arts
Association. It is called AmazonSmile.
See ARTS ASSOCIATION / Page 17
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