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Toiletries for First Place Family

  • Start date: 11/19/2021

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 11/19/2021

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Instead of socks, bring toiletries such as full bottles of shampoo to drop off at the First Family Center. Our 4 mile amble will mainly be on the bike path and Adidas Oregon Trail/Rexius Trail through Amazon Park. Email Janet Jacobsen @ comcast.net if you have questions or want to donate but not do the walk. For more information, see their website: https://www.svdp.us/news/article/first-place-program-wish-lists Possible items to donate: : Kleenex Tissues, boxes, Sanitizing Surface Wipes , Q-tips, Combs and Hairbrushes, Deodorant, Shampoo & Conditioner , Toothbrushes

  • Event Leader: Janet Jacobsen

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-206-1251

  • Event Leader Email: jbjacobsen@comcast.net

  • Assistant Leader: Joella Ewing

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: Amazon Park, 28th & Hilyard entrance parking lot

  • Rating: Easy

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2022

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required:

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 4

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain:

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Loaded down with bags and packs filled with toiletries, nineteen of us walked from Amazon Community Center to First Family Center to deliver our donations. Family Support Specialist Hailey Finnigan thanked us for giving so many donations and that the families will appreciate all the help. With a lighter step, we walked on the bike path to the Nightingale Hosted Shelter community at 3500 Hilyard Street. Joella donates a home cooked once a week for the twenty residents and had made arrangements for a tour with the resident camp manager, Nathan Showers. Funded by primarily by grants and donation, we were so impressed with the scope of assistance. Awesome! Joella returned with some of group while the rest of us continued on to Tugman Park, South Hilyard Terrace on Betty Niven Lane with its low income rentals for working families, and the First Family Annex at West Amazon and Fox Hollow. Our 2 ½ hour walk made us more aware of housing options and how much St. Vincent de Paul has provided affordable housing and homeless services for our community. The most heard phrase: “I had no idea that this was here. “