WHAT IS A TIP VOLUNTEER? TIP Volunteers support family members and friends following: suicides, natural or unexpected deaths, drownings, motor vehicle fatalities, victims of fires and crimes, witnesses to crimes and those affected by violence. WHAT IS TIPNW? Trauma Intervention Program NW, founded in 1992, is a group of specially trained and thoroughly screened volunteers who provide emotional and practical support to victims of traumatic events and their families in the firs

By Lion, Milt Fox For The Mountain Times Bingo Thank you for continuing to make this year’s Bingo season a successful one. We’ve been averaging about 65 players per evening, according to Lion Bingo Chair Carol Norgard. Thanks to Lion Jim Espenel who plowed our parking lot – Jim loves operating his little tractor Kermit. I should also thank all of those Lions who work Bingo for about 30 Friday nights per year. Remember, doors open at 6:00pm and Bingo starts at 7:00pm. The proc

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Gary Gene Peck, who died suddenly on Friday January 17, 2025. A longtime resident of Welches, OR, Gary was born in Evansville Indiana on March 23, 1941, to parents Ernest and Lillian Peck. Growing up, Gary excelled both academically as well as athletically, particularly in baseball where he was a tenacious third baseman and feared hitter from both sides of the plate. Proud of his notable 30-year career at Hewlett Packar

Stanley Augustin Osborne (Gus) died peacefully on the morning of January 25, 2025 at his home in Rhododendron, Oregon following a valiant battle against cancer. He was born on August 16, 1958 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a 1976 graduate of Foley High School. Gus completed nursing school at Mobile College, and he served as an emergency room nurse at Mobile Infirmary in Mobile, Alabama and South Baldwin Hospital in Foley, Alabama. In Oregon, he used his nursing backgro

By Teresa Sullivan For The Mountain Times My suspense was overflowing. I was standing in the kitchen with scissors poised to cut the strings and open the package in my hand. My husband walked around the corner and gasped “You can’t open that! You need to let Sid do it!” The package was clearly a newspaper rolled up and wrapped tightly in paper which had yellowed from age. My late father Wayne Fuller addressed the paper to Sydney Poole years before. There were but two thin kit