First hospice remembrance gathering held for all KVH hospice care recipients
Today Klickitat Valley Health Hospice hosts its First Annual Klickitat Valley Health Hospice Memorial Gathering, at Ekone Park from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Staff and volunteers of the Home Health and Hospice program will coordinate a Remembrance Board honoring those who have been cared for through the Hospice program since it was established at Klickitat Valley Health in 2005.The public is invited to attend the memorial and can contact Home Health & Hospice at 773-0380 for more information.
Asked about the upcoming memorial, Margaret Crowell, a coordinator at KVH Home Health & Hospice said, “It is a tradition for Hospices around the country to hold memorial services in honor of those they have served. It can be healing for bereaved families, friends of the patient, and hospice staff to gather and share memories of those who have died. Healing from loss is a process, and KVH Hospice is here to support people through this process.”
At some time a person may experience an illness or injury that requires professional medical attention, but not necessarily care in a hospital setting. Home Health offers coordinated health services to meet the needs of homebound patients, and to provide support for family caregivers.
Services are available to adolescents and adults who reside within Klickitat County and are homebound with an acute or changing medical condition that requires a skilled healthcare service.
Services must be given under a physician’s written plan of treatment and may be associated with any hospital in any state.
Final plea made for host families for foreign teens
Foreign high school students are scheduled to arrive soon for academic semester and year homestay programs, and the sponsoring organization needs a few more local host families. The students are anxiously awaiting news of their new families. This is the last chance for these young ambassadors to fulfill their life-long dreams, and their placement deadlines are rapidly approaching.
According to Pacific Intercultural Exchange (P.I.E.) President John Doty, the students are all between the ages of 15 and 18 years, are English-speaking, have their own spending money, carry accident and health insurance, and are anxious to share their cultural experiences with their new American families. P.I.E. currently has programs to match almost every family’s needs, ranging in length from one semester to a full academic year, where the students attend local public and private high schools.
Families who host for P.I.E. are eligible to claim a monthly charitable contribution deduction on their itemized tax returns for each month they host a sponsored student.
For the upcoming programs, P.I.E. has students from Germany, the Former Soviet Union, Venezuela, Argentina, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands, Brazil, Hungary, Korea, Mexico, Australia, China, and many other countries. P.I.E. is a non-profit educational organization that has sponsored more than 25,000 students from 45 countries since its founding in 1975. The organization is designated by the United States Department of State and is listed by the Council on Standards for International Educational Travel (CSIET), certifying that the organization complies with the standards set forth in CSIET’s Standards for International Educational Travel Programs.
Families interested in learning more about student exchange or arranging for a meeting with a community representative may call P.I.E., toll-free, at (866) 546-1402. The agency also has travel/study program opportunities available for American high school students as well as possibilities for community volunteers to assist and work with area host families, students and schools.
P.I.E. area representatives match students with host families by finding common interests and lifestyles through an informal in-home meeting. Prospective host families are able to review student applications and select the perfect match. As there are no “typical” host families, P.I.E. can fit a student into just about any situation, whether it is a single parent, a childless couple, a retired couple or a large family.
P.I.E. is also participating in two special government-funded programs to bring scholarship students from the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union as well as predominantly Islamic countries such as Yemen, Syria, Jordan, Morocco, Kuwait, Iraq and Qatar to the United States.
Doty encourages families to contact the program immediately, as it will allow the proper time for the students and hosts to get to know one another before they actually meet for the first time.
4-Hers demonstrate food talents
Klickitat County Extension announced the results of the 4-H Foods Day, which took place Thursday, July 29 at the Goldendale High School Home Economics room.
Results for the various categories were:
• My Favorite Foods: Primary age division - Brandi Vance, participation ribbon. Junior age division - Alyssa Simmons, blue ribbon and lot champion. Intermediate age division - Jakeb Partlow, blue ribbon; Faith Simmons, blue ribbon and lot champion. Senior age division - Jackie Miller, blue ribbon.
• Table Setting: Primaries - Brandi Vance, participation ribbon. Juniors - Alyssa Simmons , blue ribbon. Intermediates - Jakeb Partlow, blue ribbon; Faith Simmons, blue ribbon. Seniors - Jackie Miller, blue ribbon.
• Yeast Breads: Intermediates - Jakeb Partlow, blue ribbon.
• Foods of the Pacific Northwest: Intermediates - Jakeb Partlow, blue ribbon and lot champion.
• Packed Lunch: Primaries - Brandi Vance, participation ribbon.
• Quick to Fix Meals, Seniors - Jackie Miller, blue ribbon.
Ribbons awarded for foods judging were: blue ribbons to Alyssa Simmons (junior contest winner), Jakeb Partlow, Faith Simmons (intermediate contest winner), and Jackie Miller (senior contest winner). Participation ribbon to Brandi Vance .
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