Please Donate to the SCCO Green Food Drive to Support Food For Lane County

Posted on January 19, 2024 by Gary Haliski

The Santa Clara Community Organization is hosting a Green Food Drive to benefit FOOD For Lane County. Please make your donation today to help us ensure our neighbors have access to nutritious food to live healthy and active lives. All donations made go directly to FOOD For Lane County.

 For every dollar donated, FOOD For Lane County can access and distribute two meals.

Click here or on the image below and you will be directed to the webpage to make your donation. And Thank You!

A Green Food Drive is one that provides food for the hungry with less carbon inputs than traditional can drives. Canned and preserved food have lots of energy inputs-processing, trucking, packaging, etc., and ends up providing ingredients that have less nutritive value than locally produced fresher foods..

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Meals on Wheels. – Volunteers Needed

Posted on January 10, 2024 by Gary Haliski

From Food for Lane County’s Meals on Wheels program:

Meals on Wheels in Eugene is dedicated to providing homebound seniors a nutritious meal, a friendly visit, and a quick safety check.
There are several ways to get involved!

We need help:

  • Making home deliveries
  • Packing frozen meals
  • Dishwashing
  • Packing hot meals
  • Packing pet food

Our highest need roles are delivery drivers, but we are grateful for help in any role!

Visit for more Information :

541-607-5065
Email: MOWgroup@foodforlanecounty.org
Web: https://www.foodforlanecounty.org/volunteer/

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Freezing Days Ahead – Help Needed: Egan Warming Centers are looking for volunteers

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Gary Haliski

Deep freezes are expected this weekend. If you are already trained to volunteer at Egan Warming Centers – Thank You.

Want to help out? The next in-person training is on Saturday, January 20. There is also Zoom training on Tuesday, January 23rd and Thursday, February 28th. When you volunteer, you’re certain to see some of your SCCO friends helping out.

Here’s a link to sign up for the next training sessions.

The nearest Egam warming center is off Maxwell Road just south of Beltline.

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Videos posted from January 4 SCCO meeting

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Gary Haliski

The quarterly Social Justice Committee presentation was the featured portion of the January 4 meeting – Mobility International USA. This is especially good to view if you have friends or relatives who are mobility impaired. Here is a link to the video.

Mobility international

There is also a video with committee reports and a general discussion about ideas for new events in Santa Clara that could be sponsored by the SCCO. There are a lot of interesting ideas. If you would like to help or have other ideas, let us know by emailing us at contact@santaclaracommunity.org. Here’s the link to the Committee Reports video.

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CERT in-person training March 12th

Posted on January 8, 2024 by Gary Haliski

The CERT Basic Training program is a hybrid course with an initial online class, and then three in-person classes.

The first step:  Obtain your FEMA Student Identification (SID) number

To reduce the risk of identity theft, FEMA, the National Fire Academy (NFA), and the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) are eliminating the use of the Social Security Number (SSN), where possible when applying for training.
FEMA has implemented the use of a Student Identification (SID) number. You will be required to obtain and use the SID in applying for NFA or EMI courses. This number will be used in place of the SSN on your application.

Read more on how to obtain your SID  https://cdp.dhs.gov/femasid

The second step: complete the online portion of the course.
Here is the link https://cert.hazready.com/CourseCatalog
Be sure to scroll down and click on the course titled: ONLINE TRAINING – CERT 2021 en. Then click on the REGISTER button.

The third step:  Once you finish the online portion of the course, you will need to forward your completion certificate to me, Tracy Baier, at: TBAIER1@amfam.com.
That certificate will be your key to registration for the in-person training.

The fourth step:  Register online for the class at https://eugene-cert.com/cert-basic-training
That will reserve your seat for the class.


The next public in-person class is the evening of March 12th and 14th, with the Final Drill on March 16th.
Another class is planned for Fall of 2024.

Learn about upcoming monthly classes on our webpage https://eugene-cert.com/calendar

You may also join our Facebook Page to view posts for other local events, information, and education links.

If you have any additional questions, please feel free to email Tracy Baier at: TBAIER1@amfam.com.

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