Community Leadership Award
Dorinne Pedersen and Rachael Brake are being offered this award in recognition of all their work organizing their communities in preparation for our Community Wildfire Defense Grant application. Without their crucial legwork in reaching out to their communities, we would not have been able to develop a proposal or apply for this grant on such…
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Betsy Charlton Powell and Kelly Charlton Betsy Charlton Powell and Kelly Charlton are sisters and business partners who own and manage a 165+ acre farm on Sauvie Island that has been operating for 150 years. Their collaboration with the district began in earnest in 2020 to step up control of the weeds and increase native…
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