Community Involvement

EPUD's Board of Directors and employees are your neighbors. We live in the same communities and support them in many ways, big and small. EPUD supports its communities' annual events as much as possible. We're in the parades; we bring our Ice Cream Social booth to the festivals; we're involved in the Chambers of Commerce; we participate in United Way's Annual Day of Caring; we donate to Food for Lane County and much more. Want us to be involved in YOUR event? Give us a call at 746-1583 or email us.

EPUD Relay for Life

For the first time this year, EPUD employees have formed a Relay for Life team! We'll be walking around the LCC track from noon on Friday July 24 through noon Saturday July 25 in support of finding the cure for cancer. Our team has raised over $1400 to date! Interested in donating? Contact Hillary McBride, EPUD Community Relations Officer at 744-7488.

Summer 2009 Parades and Ice Cream Socials!

Make sure to stop by one of our booths this summer for EPUD information, a cool treat or just to say "hello"

July 4- Creswell Parade (11 a.m.) and Garden Lake Park Ice Cream Social (4-7 p.m.)
July 18- Cottage Grove Bohemia Mining Days Parade (10 a.m.) and Ice Cream Social (11 a.m.-3 p.m.)
July 18- Coburg Golden Years Parade (11:30 a.m.) and Ice Cream Social (12-3 p.m.)
July 25- Marcola Mary Cole Days Parade (10 a.m.) and Ice Cream Social (11 a.m.-2 p.m.)
July 25- Lowell Blackberry Jam Parade (11 a.m.)

Earth Day and Arbor Day- April 2009

April offered many opportunities for EPUD to be involved in our local communities. On Earth Day, April 22, a group of EPUD employees volunteered for the Coast Fork of the Willamette Watershed Council in Creswell that is coordinating restoration efforts at Garden Lake Park. We laid bark on trails, maintained plantings, and removed invasive species. On Arbor Day, April 24, EPUD volunteers joined a class of 3rd and 4th graders at Latham Elementary School in Cottage Grove and planted five new Power Friendly shade trees in the playground. Students learned about the many benefits of trees, helped dig the holes, and planted the trees.

Food for Lane County Food Drive 2008

EPUD employees donated over 400 pounds of food this year in our December Food Drive for Food for Lane County.

United Way Day of Caring 2008

EPUD participates in the United Way Day of Caring every year. This year, our crews tackled the Wallace Creek Girl Scout camp in Jasper. We painted buildings, mowed and cut back thick grass, trees and brush, and cleaned the main lodge.

Other EPUD Involvement:

• Arbor Day at Trent Elementary in Pleasant Hill
• Cottage Grove Gold Dust Parade
• Sponsored Coburg, Cottage Grove and Lowell Summer Parades
• Participated in Creswell, Coburg, Cottage Grove, Lowell and Marcola Summer Parades
• Provided EPUD Ice cream Socials in Coburg, Cottage Grove and Marcola
• Project Homeless Connect
• Cottage Grove High School Career Day
• Creswell Chamber Banquet
• United Way Day of Caring
• Sponsored University of Oregon Climate Master Program
• Pleasant Hill Preschool Safety Demo and Bucket Truck Rides
• Junction City/Harrisburg Chamber Golf Tournament
• Short Mountain Tour for Riverfront School and Approvecho
• Assisted USGS with Osprey Egg Testing
• Catholic Community Service Dinner Auction
• Habitat for Humanity Junction City/Harrisburg
• Monroe Gold Tournament Green Sponsor
• Sponsored Springfield Killer Bees to Attend Nationals

EPUD Employee Involvement:

• EPUD employees donated more than $18,000 to the United Way Campaign in 2008
• EPUD employees donated 400 pounds of food to Food for Lane County in 2008
• Diamond Wood Men's Club
• Babe Ruth
• YMCA
• Kidsports
• Lowell City Council
• CPA "Feeding the Pig" Campaign
• American Cancer Society--Relay for Life
• Creswell Board
• SMART Reading Program
• Salvation Army

EPUD Community Support Grant:

In 2008, EPUD launched a new community support grant program, aimed at helping people in the EPUD District improve community livability. To learn more about this new grant program, read the release here (scroll to June 2008). Grant monies have been allocated to the following organizations and projects:

• Cottage Grove London School to bring electricity to the new arts and crafts building.
• Lorane Rebekahs to bring power and light to the 100F cemetery.
• Pleasant Hill Babe Ruth to replant the baseball field, build dugouts and a fence, and install irrigation lines,
• Junction City to build two full-size outdoor basketball counts for kids and the community.
• Pleasant Hill High School to bring newer, more efficient lighting to the football field.
• Cottage Grove High School to run new electric lines to light the new baseball field.
• Elmira Grange for general building improvements and weatherization.
• Pleasant Hill Softball to build a new fence for the softball field.
• Fern Ridge to build a new community reader board.
• Northwest Youth Corps to increase disaster response resources in our area.

For questions about the grant or any other EPUD community involvement, please call us at 746-1583 or email us.