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2011-2012 North Clackamas County Chamber of Commerce Business Directory
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olunteers in the Sunrise Com-
munities choose from a wide
variety of ways to provide ser-
vice and to complete their inner self.
These communities are all about the
people who live and visit here, and
making life better for them.
Dan O’Dell can tell you of the count-
less hours dozens of
Boring
community
members put in developing
Boring Sta-
tion Trailhead Park
at the end of the
Springwater Trail.
The park provides
a gathering place for community as well
as being the end of a trail that navigates
the region.
Damascus
boasts a community park
that had played host to the state’s
Cen-
tennial Peace Candle,
which still ex-
ists and functions today. The artifact
was made from 20 tons of candle wax
collected by children in and aroundDa-
mascus in 1959 to celebrate the state’s
birthday. The finished candle was 21
and 1/2 feet tall and it was 35 inches
across. The Marines were enlisted to
move the finished four-ton candle to
Main Street in Damascus. The candle
was lit on June 14, 1959 and it burned
at the rate of one inch every 36 hours.
The candle’s flame burned for 100 days.
A concrete and steel replica was built
in 1962 and it stands today as a monu-
ment to the original Centennial Peace
Candle. Save for a couple buildings that
remain, the Candle Monument is the
only remnant from the Little World’s
Fair in Damascus.
Andrew Nordby is running his 5th
annual triathlon for the
Leukemia
Lymphoma Society
(www.lls.org).
He’s part of the
Team In Training,
committed to putting on about a doz-
en event each year as fundraising op-
portunities for the children & families
affected by this disease. Before each
event, the team chooses one brave
child to be their ‘Honored Teammate’.
“These kids are why we do everything
we can,” Nordby concludes.
When asked why team members
agree to go through rigorous training
year round, includingSaturdaymorning
bike rides from 7-8:00 a.m. regardless of
weather conditions, he explains; “When
I hurt & start feeling sorry for myself, I
see in my mind the faces of these kids
and think about how much the family
suffer. I can’t complain. The hardships
of my life are insignificant in light of
what they go through each and every
day! Honestly, I don’t know how they do
it. They inspire us a LOT more than we
inspire them.” Nordby is typical of the
hundreds of community volunteers in
the area, striving for complete commu-
nities by being part of the solutions.
WilliamWild, an
Oak Lodge
citizen,
is actively involved with the group,
Friends of Local Control.
Their mis-
sion is to educate the community
about considerations of incorporation
in this area. “Forming a city is not an
easy task in Oregon,” Wild acknowl-
edges, “nor should it be.” Involving
a population of about 30,000, the
people need to make a choice with
so many big changes coming to this
part of Clackamas County. Friends of
Local Control is not the limit of Wild’s
involvement. Like so many others
in the area, his community service
spans many areas. Alongside him in
several is his teen-age son, Everett, a
high school student. The young Wild
is the youngest appointed member of
the Oak Lodge Community Council,
planning association for the unincor-
porated area.
More than
two dozen area nonprof-
its
are members of the Chamber, with
hundreds of volunteers and numerous
ways the business community sup-
ports their needs.
Volunteering
More than two dozen area non-profits are members of the Chamber, with hundreds of
volunteers and numerous ways the business community supports their needs.
River clean-up gets everyone and their dog
involved in volunteer activity to benefit the area.