KSPS Volunteer Mary Rush

EWGS was at KSPS doing the pledge breaks, Sunday the 29th of November, and we had a wonderful volunteer Mary Rush. Fast forward a couple of days and the KSPS Newsletter has an article on Mary Rush, so I asked permission to post the copy of the article. Thanks KSPS.

EWGS Member Duane Beck at the Washington State Archives

Out of the Archives the Newsletter from the Washington State Archives has a real nice article on EWGS member Duane Beck. You can read it here . Congratulations Duane.

WSGS Volunteer Award for Lola McCreary

Probably one of the best reasons for joining a genealogical society is the people you meet, and the volunteers that help run the society are the best. So I was glad when EWGS nominated Lola McCreary for the Volunteer award that WSGS gives out at their annual meeting. Sadly Lola did not attend this years meeting so here she is receiving her award from WSGS vice president Donna Potter-Phillips.

Cheers to the Library Volunteers

This is a copy of the Cheers article in the Inlander newspaper July 24, 2014 page 60, thanking Eastern Washington Genealogical Society library helpers by the Spokane Firefighters Memorial Project. They are putting a memorial in the sidewalk close to where each Spokane Firefighter died. I know the volunteers will appreciate the thanks.

EWGS Members at KSPS

This is a picture of several EWGS members taking pledges at our local PBS Station KSPS.
I did not get the names of three people, but those I did get names are Front Row: Jacque Lane, Charles Hansen, Janine Rowan, Jeanne Coe
Back Row: Dani Lee McGowan, Shirley Penna Oakes, Melody Hall, Dick Oakes, Keith Anderson, John Stuart,Sarah Wasicek, Donna Phillips and Cecily Kelly almost completely hidden in the back right. Sarah is not an EWGS member but sister to Mike Chandler who is an EWGS member.
We made the night a pot luck and got a lot of grazing done between answering phones. Collected about $16,500 for KSPS

Do you Volunteer?

The Wizard of ID has been running cartoons on volunteering
You can see previous days by clicking the previous link near the bottom of the cartoon.