On Friday, February 26, 2010, twelve people from the Tarahumara Children's Hospital Fund organization in Portland, Oregon went to Tijuana, Mexico, a city of 2.5 million people to the Jesuit Casa Manresa Retreat House for the weekend. Participants were Peggy and John Brockamp, Jerry and Joan Bettendorf, Chris Bowdish, Steve and Miriam Schneider, Don and Lana McCullough, Paul and Kathy Kester, Jim and Carol Feltz, and myself, Carol Bitz.
ld John McCullough, a pioneer member of the Oregon TCHF board, died July 8, 2010, of a heart attack while fishing on the Oregon coast. He is survived by his wife, Lana, also a member of the board, and two children Tammy and Valerie.
March 3, 2010 was an extraordinary day for Cliff and Dolores Wolf from Milwaukie, Oregon. They had just taken the Copper Canyon Train ride with another traveler, Dan Ramirez from Milwaukie, Oregon, to Creel, Mexico. They were driven on this particular day to a remote village about 50 minutes from Creel by Fr. Pedro de Velasco, Director of Clinica Santa Teresita. The unpaved rocky road, described as a “goat path” by Dolores, led to a clearing back in the woods where two water wells had been drilled. These two water wells were sponsored by Cliff and Dolores Wolf and their family members in memory of his parents, Joseph and Mildred Wolf.