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Three Men Who Save Children

Three Men Who Save Children
From MMT's 2000-01 Annual Report

When Tony Hopson wants to know what the lives of inner city children in Portland are like, he walks out of his office, takes a flight of stairs down to a classroom of eight to ten year olds, and asks a series of questions.

“How many of you know someone in a gang?”
80 percent raise their hands.

“How many of you know someone who carries a gun?”
60 percent raise their hands.

“How many of you know someone dead as the result of violence?”
50 percent raise their hands.

“How many of you hear gunshots every night?”
80 percent raise their hands.

"It Makes the Whole Ocean Move"

"It Makes the Whole Ocean Move" –
Why the Meyer Trust is helping the farthest reaches of Oregon maintain access to health care
From MMT's 1999-200 Annual Report

When I asked George Houx what would happen to him and others in the community if the Jordan Valley Health Clinic were to close, he had a ready and eloquent answer.

"What happens when you put your finger in the ocean?" he asked.

Looking straight at me, he answered his own question: "It makes the whole ocean move."

Baker County Comes Back

Baker County Comes Back –
How MMT Is Working To Help Rural Oregon Survive
From MMT's 1998-99 Annual Report

Lit by the waning rays of late afternoon sun glowing through the multi-colored skylight, Barbara Sidway stands looking down into the atrium of the Geiser Grand Hotel, where diners are finishing their meals at the white linen-clothed tables below. “I don’t want to sound self-serving,” says the hotel’s owner, “but I think this building is a perfect metaphor for this community. When it was built, it represented the belief that the gold wealth was never going to stop.”

Pointing across the atrium, Sidway continues, “Right there was the third elevator the Otis company installed west of the Mississippi River.

The Trust in Florence

Image by Don Hankins: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23905174@N00/2792217711/

The Trust in Florence
From MMT's 1997-98 Annual Report

The disarming friendliness of a small town was evident from my first stop in Florence at the Siuslaw Public Library to see the "Tot Spot," funded by a Trust grant in 1996. Karen Preuss insisted on meeting me there to show me around, even though she had resigned two weeks earlier as the library's first children's librarian in order to move back to her family's home in Maine, and was up to her elbows in packing.

"This library has tremendous support from the community," Preuss explained as she escorted me past the stacks of bookshelves. "It's one of the three main reasons people decide to retire here..."

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