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COMMUNITY
C O M MU NI T Y

SPECIAL HELP IN SPECIAL TIMES

COQUI’S “COVID” GARDEN

ote: Reading the paper, tuning in the 6:00 news, likely adds
Nto our sense of woe and angst. We all need smiles during this
unique, troublesome time. The Parmenters’ story shows how nature
and neighbors brightened one couple’s lives. It is also an example of
how life could look even after we return to “normal.”

My wife, Coqui, is from Puerto Rico, and has always wanted a raised
bed vegetable garden of her very own. Oregon’s “Stay Home, Stay
Safe” order gave me the time I needed to create “Coqui’s Garden.” This
garden project quickly captured the interest of our neighborhood.
Each day neighbors filled wheel barrows, loaned me tools, and offered
helpful advice...all from six feet away! In our neighborhood, Covid-
19 may have put six feet between us, but it has drawn our hearts and
friendships closer together.

~Bud Parmenter

& & HEARTS WITH A MISSION

RECEIVES $20,000 FROM
ALLCARE HEALTH
FAMILY WINER Y
earts With A Mission (HWAM) announces a $20,000 grant from
HAllCare Health’s COVID-19 Resiliency Fund to provide services
for homeless, runaway, and transitional youth in crisis and their fami-
lies. The funds will be used to support their increased expenses due to
HELPING ACCESS COVID-19—additional staffing with kids now home all day and needing
extra educational support; increased costs for shelter food, utilities, and
GOLDBACK WINES AND paper products; and to replace a loss of revenue due to cancellation of
WEISINGER FAMILY WINERY our two major fundraisers. Since opening in 2010, HWAM has provided
over 48,810 nights of shelter to more than 1,163 youth in Jackson and
s the Covid-19 pandemic continues to take a terrible human and Josephine counties.
Aeconomic toll in the Rogue Valley, winemakers Andy Myer of
Goldback Wines and Eric Weisinger of Weisinger Family Winery are AllCare Health is an integrated health organization in Southern Oregon,
taking action. Starting April 17, these wineries are donating 10 per- serving Jackson, Josephine, and Curry counties, as well as southern
cent of all wine sales to ACCESS, which operates more than a dozen Douglas County. Its COVID-19 Resiliency Fund was created to sup-
emergency food pantries in Jackson County. This donation applies to port community-based organizations such as Hearts With A Mission.
all sales, including sales by local wine retailers who carry Weisinger The goal of the fund is to help improve and stabilize the capacity of these
and Goldback wines in the Rogue Valley. important community-based organizations and continue to promote
health within the communities of our service region for the duration of
A small kindness adds up to a big help for those individuals and families the COVID-19 pandemic and as we prepare for the long-term effects.
struggling. To learn more about the COVID-19 Resiliency Fund and other grant
recipients, visit:
www.GoldbackWines.com
www.Weisingers.com www.AllCareHealth.com and www.HeartsWithAMission.org

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