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• A Celebration of Civic Engagement

  • When
    18 Sep 2025
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    Willamette Heritage Center (Spinning Room) 1313 Mill St SE, Salem, OR 97301

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  Please join the Salem City Club and Civic Organizations as we celebrate the many non-profits which contribute to our community. See what we can do together to enrich and strengthen our neighborhoods, our city, and the Willamette Valley. Friends and family are welcome. Light refreshments are provided.

  
  

  Featured Speaker:

  Gwen Carr, Director of The Bush House Museum

  Carr is a familiar face not just in Salem but in the Northwest. She has served on a variety of local community boards, including Oregon Black Pioneers, Willamette Heritage Center, Oregon Geographic Names, and Salem YWCA. She moved to Salem from the Los Angeles area in the early 1980s, escaping the big city. She was in her early 30s and had experience as a manager at a small insurance company, but struggled to find a supervisory position. A friend told her she would have a hard time in Oregon. Carr was hired by SAIF in March 1981, not long after it became the nation’s first public corporation specifically focused on workers’ compensation insurance. Her first job, as part of a three-member team, was to help the underwriting division make the shift from state control to independence as a self-supporting, not-for-profit public corporation. (Gwen Carr Sees Opportunity As New Director of Bush House Museum | Statesman Journal, July 1, 2025)

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