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September 6, 2010
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The Fall Trade Directory is now available.
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Member Profile ~ Stan Loop
Winter 2008
Stan Loop has a long history of participating in community service projects. From political activism in college to two terms of service with AmeriCorps, he’s always been involved in the communities where he lives. He even met his wife, Kristin, while working with the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG) in Portland.
In addition to community work, Stan is an accomplished service technician for all kinds of water systems. Working on everything from swimming pools and saunas to aquariums and baptismal founts, he recalls being the “go-to guy” for unusual jobs at The Pool and Spa House, in Tigard, Oregon, often working on systems with no wiring diagrams or documentation. He also
spent time as a photographer in the Navy, a sound technician in Nashville and studied
computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Oregon and
Oregon Institute of Technology.
Moving back to the Gorge in 1998 to be closer to his family, Stan acquired a specialty contractor’s license to start his own business servicing pools and spas. To reconnect with the community, he worked as a local coordinator for the 2000 Ralph Nader presidential campaign. There, he met Scot Bergeron and Rebecca Stonestreet, cofounders in the Columbia Gorge Earth Center, the Gorge Rebuild-it Center and eventually the GLCC.
Stan finished his second AmeriCorps term at the Spring Creek National Fish Hatchery in Bingen in 2006 and joined the GLCC at Scot and Rebecca’s encouragement to offer his construction and repair skills for RiverHOURS. It seemed to him a good way to build a customer base in reestablishing his repair/construction business. He and Kristin also coordinate the organic/bulk food buying group Waucoma Foods, which also accepts RH. When Stan needs new goods and services he always checks the RiverHours trade directory first. He urges, “Supporting the local economy should be everyone’s #1 priority!”
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