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Read about our truck crisis!

JC Local Aid Needs Truck for the Holidays, Tri-County News, November 27, 2008

Local Aid Lacking in Donations, Funding and Volunteers, Tri-County News, August 18, 2008

About Local Aid

Junction City Local Aid was begun as an informal local community chest in 1945 by area churches and individuals. Today, Local Aid rents space in a downtown Junction City building, and shares offices with the local branch office of the state's Department of Human Resources. One part-time paid employee, Executive Director Susan Jones, operates Local Aid with the assistance of many, many volunteers and the oversight of a volunteer Board of Directors.

Local Aid is a a United Way agency, a partner food bank of Food for Lane County,  and a member of the Junction City/Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce.

Executive Director: Susan Jones

Board of Directors

Judy Spearin, President
Retired
Melissa Bowers
Director, Viking Sal Senior Center
Joan Young, Vice President
Retired
Sherry Fanning
Marketing Manager, Country Coach
Karen DeBow, Treasurer
Legal Assistant, Barbara Bower P.C.
Brennen Guillory
Pastor, Faith Lutheran Church
David DeBow, Secretary
Pastor, First Christian Church
Cornelia Vergara
Hispanic Liaison, Baptist Church