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I'm not an athlete or much of a fan, but it's an honor to have all these guests in our town. Over 2,000 people have volunteered to help put this event on, some may be athletes but many are not. Most of the volunteers are locals, but I met a couple who are senior citizens from Couer d'Alene, ID who are here for 2 weeks to attend events and also to be volunteers.

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Aside from the political decisions, when I lived in Philomath in the late 1980s there were families who had moved to Philomath so their children could take advantage of the scholarships. Some of these families had no history with Philomath and some moved to the area to work at Hewlett Packard. If the initial intent was to help the children of the community including timber workers, it seemed to me that there needed to be some criteria other than a physical address so the resources could be used for the purpose of assisting the town's heritage in it's children.

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