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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">2021 Oregon Heritage Excellence Awards Open for Nominations<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Nominations for the 2021 Oregon Heritage Excellence Awards Program are now being accepted. Criteria and the application process can be found online through the Oregon Heritage website
<a href="https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/OH/pages/awards.aspx#one">www.oregonheritage.org</a> or by contacting Oregon Heritage Coordinator Katie Henry at
<a href="mailto:katie.henry@oregon.gov">katie.henry@oregon.gov</a> or (503) 877-8834. The deadline for submitting nominations is January 14, 2021. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The Oregon Heritage Excellence Awards recognize individuals, businesses, and organizations for outstanding efforts on behalf of Oregon's heritage, drawing public attention to these efforts,
and raising the quality of heritage-oriented activities. The Sally Donovan Award for Historic Cemetery Preservation is a special category that may be awarded to one individual, organization, or project demonstration excellence in preservation of historic cemeteries.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Nominations are encouraged for organizations and projects of all sizes and heritage purposes and for volunteers and professionals from all heritage sectors. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">“The award recipients represent the exceptional efforts to preserve Oregon’s heritage,” said Katie Henry, coordinator for the Oregon Heritage Commission. “They serve as models for others for
innovative, collaborative, and authentic approaches to preserving Oregon’s stories.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">2020’s Oregon Heritage Excellence Awards event in April was canceled due to COVID-19. In order to honor last year’s recipients we created videos of the award winners that are now available
to view at <a href="http://www.oregonheritage.org">https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/OH/pages/awards.aspx#one</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">2020 recipients included:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">--<b> Astoria YMCA Restoration Project</b>,
<b>Astoria,</b> for excellence in façade restoration of a nearly abandoned building and honoring the building’s civic roots in reuse. <b><a href="https://youtu.be/0x4YC-Y1BSs">Award Video</a>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">-- Black Butte Cupola Restoration Project,</span></b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">
<b>Sisters,</b> for a collaborative historic preservation effort between Friends of the Metolius and Deschutes National Forest to restore and preserve the 1922 look-out structure.
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/u61Vps0yxXM">Award Video</a></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">-- Brookside Pioneer Cemetery,</span></b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">
<b>Dayton,</b> for creating a cemetery preservation plan, documenting conditions, and repairing over 121 headstones to their original upright positions (Sally Donovan Award for Historic Cemeteries).
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/7uGCrY56Z4o">Award Video</a></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">--<b> Janice Dilg,</b>
<b>Portland,</b> scholar, public historian, and history builder who uncovers diverse voices of resistance, particularly related to Oregon’s women’s history.
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/ivIaMfJoCG4">Award Video</a></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">--<b> David Ellis,</b>
<b>Portland,</b> for a distinguished 50-year career preserving Oregon’s archaeological, ethnohistoric, and historic resources and encouraging Tribal participation in cultural resources management.
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/Xu9hqAznOM0">Award Video</a></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">-- Eileen Fitzsimons, Portland,
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">for dedicated statewide work on heritage projects preserving Oregon’s history, including devotion to historic trails, the Oregon Quilt Project, and local history.
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/bfuQi0gQsF0">Award Video</a></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">--<b> Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project,</b> <b>Southern & Eastern Oregon,</b> a grassroots Federal/State/Local partnership in public archaeology helping to rewrite the role of the Chinese diaspora
and Chinese Oregonians in the history of the state. <b><a href="https://youtu.be/Urw4LYYoBO8">Award Video.</a></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">--<b> Don Peting,</b>
<b>Eugene,</b> founder of PNW Field School and central figure at UO Historic Preservation Program for 40 years who has created a ripple effect through those he has taught.
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/U7mETkhYzAE">Award Video.</a></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">-- Racing for Change-</span></b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">
<b>The Eugene Story</b>, <b>Eugene & Salem,</b> a partnership between Oregon Black Pioneers and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History that prioritized community outreach and input to tell a local story about race relations in Eugene.
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/TWEbKgbskB4">Award Video.</a></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">-- Phyllis Zegers,</span></b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">
<b>Roseburg,</b> a dedicated volunteer who has researched over 3,360 unclaimed cremated remains in the custody of the Oregon State Hospital and assisted in reuniting approximately 573 urns with family members.
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/NMTHToAb5pA">Award Video</a></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The 2021 awards will be presented at the Oregon Heritage Virtual Summit, April 29-30, by Oregon Heritage, a division of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The announcement for 2021 awardees will be made in February 2021. Tickets for the awards presentation will be made available this coming spring. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">For more information visit
<a href="http://www.oregonheritage.org">www.oregonheritage.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Share your photos of Oregon’s heritage on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter using #oregonheritage.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Oregon Heritage News is a service of Oregon Heritage, a division of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. The news editor can be contacted at
<a href="mailto:heritage.info@oregon.gov" target="_blank">heritage.info@oregon.gov</a>.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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