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By Request: MJCC Therapy Pool Benefit Auction

I got a request from Mara in my email this morning on behalf of the Silent Auction and Concert to benefit the therapy pool at the MJCC. And here’s the post!

You may have heard about the MJCC Therapy Pool users having to raise funds to keep their (our) pool open. While the MJCC underwent its 12 million dollar renovation, the therapy pool was in danger of closing due to lack of funds.

The pool members rallied and raised enough money to keep the pool open through August 2007. They’re having a silent auction and concert by June Howell and the Deadbeat Daddies at the MJCC’s auditorium on

Sunday April 22
1:30 - 4:30 pm
MJCC 6651 SW Capitol Hwy

Tickets are $36 and can be purchased with a credit card by calling 503-244-0111. H’ors doeuvres and desserts will be served; there will be a no-host bar.

Bid on vacations in Hawaii, Sunriver and Long Beach Washington, or gift certificates from Seasons and Regions, Alba Osteria, Otto and Anita’s as well as many other goods and services. Many Multnomah and Hillsdale merchants have donated generously to this silent auction.

I’d really appreciate a mention on your site. The therapy pool has been open for over 80 years. Through the decades, the pool has been a place for any Portland resident with a disabling condition or injury - regardless of
race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, or economic circumstance - to maintain health and physical conditioning. It would be a great loss to the community if this jewel was to close.

They’ve really done a lot of work over at the JCC, and the facilities are really going to be great when everything is done. I’m there quite often, well downstairs anyway, since Jr. V goes to Kids Corner after school, which he enjoys.

Here’s a link to the MJCC Therapy Pool Webpage and this is a link to the MJCC’s main website.

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2 Responses to “By Request: MJCC Therapy Pool Benefit Auction”

  1. Mara Says:
    March 3rd, 2007 at 11:39 pm

    Thank you so much for the mention of the auction. However, the Therapy Pool has not undergone a renovation - that was for the rest of the MJCC. We are simply trying to keep the pool from closing. While it would be nice to have updated changing facilities, it’s the desire to keep the pool open at all that the pool users planning the auction.

    You can read more about the personal and powerful stories of some of the pool users here, and find out how the closure of the pool would affect their physical and mental health:

    http://www.hevanet.com/nesbitt/Therapypool.htm

    There’s an official website for the auction now. As donations of items and gift certificates come in, they will be listed on the site.

    http://www.mjccaquatictherapy.com/

    Thank you for your support. It means a lot to the Therapy Pool Coordinating Committee. Watch for us on AM Northwest, probably in the week before the auction.

  2. Pam Says:
    March 4th, 2007 at 11:16 am

    Here’s a link with some of the “faces” of our pool community:

    http://www.theunderrepresented.com/vbf/thread/34/191/

    Click the “who we are.pdf” link.

    Thank you for mentioning the therapy program auction.