Dear Editor,
Chana School Museum once again scheduled their Autumn on Parade Open House and food booth to help support the Focus House Car Show and the Classic Tractor Show. It was a wet Saturday on Oct. 7 but that didn’t damper the spirits of the volunteers at the Chana School Museum.
The Chana School Museum Board would like to thank the volunteers who helped to set up the large tent on Friday, who organized the tent for the food booth early on Saturday, who worked one of the two hour shifts during the shows that day, and those who helped to take down and clean up after the food booth. These generous volunteers braved the elements to serve visitors with food and drink.
Much of the food for the food booth was donated to support the Chana School Museum which is a not for profit organization that depends on volunteers and donations not the tax dollar. The Chana School Board would like to thank a few special contributors for the food booth.
A “Thank You” goes out to Ken and Barb Giese for the generous donation of all the buns used at the booth. Another “Thank You” goes out to Diane Lillie and Brian Grover for donating the quarter pounder hot dogs for one of the lunch options. These hot dogs are a favorite for visitors. 

The board would like to thank Gary and Connie Stauffer for their donations and organization of this fundraiser for the schoolhouse. Also a “Thank You” goes to a very important person for this event, Mindy Thomas who is a registered food handler at the Oregon Community High School and helps to make sure that the Chana School Food Booth is setup properly and ready to serve the public safely.
Lastly, “Thank You” to all the ladies who volunteered to bake cookies for the food booth. Lunches at the food booth were topped off with a cookie for dessert.
Docents that greeted visitors at the Chana School Museum and who could answer any questions in the morning were Brian Grover, Lindy Eckhard, and Kathy Rager all from Chana. Then Mark Herman, Sherrie Piros, and Earlyne Warmolts were available in the afternoon.
The open house was especially warm with special music by Sarah Bliss and her piano student Jane Elliott of Freeport.
All money taken went to support the work at the Chana School Museum. Donna Gruber was at the schoolhouse introducing a new fundraiser for the old school. Bergner booklets are available for $5. This money goes to the Chana School Museum, but the buyer of the booklet actually gets $10 off any purchase at Bergners during their Community Days sale running from Nov. 8 to the Nov. 11 with the first coupon inside the booklet.
In addition to making $5 from your donation of $5 for the booklet, there are $500 worth of discount coupons within the booklet. With Christmas quickly approaching this fundraiser will help shoppers with cost saving coupons and benefit the Chana School Museum at the same time.
To get a booklet today you can go to Merlins Greenhouse, the Flower Patch, Curves, and Joanne’s Total Image all of which are in Oregon. Booklets may also be bought online at http://bit.ly/2hOkcaj and will be sent directly to your home. You can help the historical Chana School with you purchase.
Connie Stauffer
Oregon