This Mountain Community is powered by generous hearts and determined spirits. Helping hands reach out to assist when folks are in need.

In this Thanksgiving season, here are some quick reminders of the many ways neighbors here step up to care and share. Counterclockwise: (1) Pine Mountain Scrappers delivered their homemade quilts to Jamison Children’s Center last week; (2) Meals on Wheels volunteers wrap gifts for meal delivery recipients; (3) The VFW’s biggest and most popular fundraiser for all ages is the Fiesta Days Pancake Breakfast; (4) Moose Lodge donates its Poker Run proceeds to the Mountain Communities Family Resource Center; (5) Scholarships for high school graduates are raised by tireless volunteers as (in foreground) the late Dee “Batter Babe” Bumgartner, and (in red cap) VFW Post Commander Gil Valenzuela (now struggling with covid-19 in the hospital); (6) Volunteers work to keep the Family Resource Center food bank…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Above: In 2007 when the California Newspaper Publishers Association (CNPA) gave three awards to The Mountain Enterprise, we invited members of the community to join in the fun at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco—(l-r) Managing Editor and reporter Patric Hedlund; Juanda Lee DeShazer (proofreader, Boys & Girls Club Treasurer and Hedlund’s mom); Publisher Gary Meyer; Community activist and Realtor Karen Bailey; Nedra Hawley, who founded TME in 1966; attorney and reporter Richard Hoegh; scientist and contributor Doug Peters; Pam Sturdevant, TME Calendar and Classifieds wrangler.

Left: VFW Auxiliary member DiAnn Dever told the crowd at the 2018 Memorial Day ceremony about the Buddy Poppy program.

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This is part of the November 26, 2021 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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