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BB Camp dedicates fieldhouse on Family Day

More than 250 B’nai B’rith Camp ion, an outdoor programming space
staff, campers, alumni and friends that will honor all donors to the Sec-
gathered at BB Camp on Sunday, ond Century Campaign.
June 26, for the Annual Friends & Friends & Family Day is an op-
Family Day. portunity for families and campers
This year’s family day included the to experience a preview of camp;
dedication of the Zidell Fieldhouse. activities included canoeing, arts and
The camp’s first gym was built and crafts, and the high ropes course. Mi-
dedicated to Sam Zidell 50 years ago chael Allen Harrison and His All-Star
in 1972. The site of the old gym will Band finished the day with a concert
become the Second Century Pavil- at the BB Camp Amphitheater.

The ribbon-cutting at the new Zidell Fieldhouse included Joe Workheiser of
Athena Zidell being coached by Glen Coblens takes the JHC Construction, the Zidell Family (Jay, Jason, Athena and Judah, Crystal
first basketball shot in the new fieldhouse. A corner of Lamb, Diane and Charlene), BB Camp CEO Michelle Koplan, Men’s Camp
the gym will be dubbed “Coach Coblens Corner” in hon- Chair Irving Potter, BB Camp Chief Philanthropy Officer Aaron Pearlman and
or of Glen’s years of support and volunteerism. project supervisor Jeffrey Weitz of North Rim Development.

Obituaries CBI hosts memorial for Sisters

MEL CAMPF of the Road founder Genny Nelson
Mel Campf, z”l, passed away Genevieve “Genny” Nelson, able on their plate, a place that
on July 1, 2022, at the age of a groundbreaking advocate for was not another soup kitchen.
84. He is loved and remembered people who are homeless and Nelson died Aug. 19, 2020, of
by his wife, Susan Campf; his one who worked tirelessly her heart failure, a complication of
sons, David and Scott Campf; whole career and life for social lifelong diabetes. She was 68.
sister, Joan Campf; and grand- justice and human rights issues, Born in Idaho in 1952, Nelson
child, Shrieve Archer. will be honored with a July 27 was a junior at Portland State
The funeral was held July 3 at memorial service. The service University when she started a
Neveh Zedek. will be at Congregation Beth work-study project on skid row.
Congregation Neveh Shalom Israel. Doors open at 5 pm; the By the end of that term, she had Her key lasting accomplish-
extends deepest condolences to program begins at 5:30. found her calling: to share and ments include working with
the extended Campf family. Nelson was 27 when she and witness the grace and courage of
Sandy Gooch opened Sisters of men, women and children who Kurt Liska and Oregon U.S.
ANZHELIKA LAZUTKINA the Road Cafe Nov. 7, 1979, with have no place to live amid the Senator Mark Hatfield to
Anzhelika (Jane) Lazutkina, $10 cash between them and a wealthiest society on earth, and change how food stamps could
z”l, passed away on June 4, barter agreement for the rent. The to stand up for their freedom. be used by people who are
2020, at the age of 95. Anzhe- cafe still operates in its familiar, Sisters of the Road Cafe was homeless. The congressional
lika is survived and loved by longtime Old Town location. founded with this mission: “Sis- legislation allowed food stamps
her daughter, Irina Lazutki- They created the cafe after ters of the Road exists to build to be used to pay for prepared
na; son-in-law, Serge Ioffe; working at an Old Town wom- authentic relationships and alle- meals in nonprofit cafes. Sisters
grandson, Anatoliy Ioffe; and en’s center, Boxcar Bertha’s. viate the hunger of isolation in an of the Road Cafe was the first
great-grandsons, Oren and Leo. The cafe grew out of conversa- atmosphere of nonviolence and cafe in the country to imple-
Congregation Beth Israel of- tions with people living in Old gentle personalism that nurtures ment this new legislation.
The public is invited to come
fers condolences to the family. Town about what they needed. the whole individual, while seek- and honor Nelson, hear stories,
Submit obituaries to They asked for a place where ing systemic solutions that reach and share many years of mem-
they could feel safe, a place the roots of homelessness and
editor@jewishportland.org where meals would be recogniz- poverty to end them forever.” ories with old and new friends.
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