SPOKANE INDIANS COMMUNITY UPDATE • VERSION 8 • JANUARY 29TH 2021 HOME BASE IN THIS EDITION Inspirational Quotes....................................................3 Remembering Tommy...............................................4 Hometown Hero Rick Clark.....................................7 Community Resources..............................................9 Gold Glove Benefits/Member Highlight.............11 OTTO’s Best Pals.......................................................14 Valentine’s Day Maze...............................................16 Photos courtesy of Janna Juday2293_SpokaneIndian2020Ad_FINAL.pdf and James Snook 1 6/29/2020 8:01:34 AM EDUCATION $166.7M C M Y CM IT’S FOR US, MY CY ALL OF US. CMY WINNERS $490.4M K WHEN YOU PLAY, ALL OF WASHINGTON WINS. WALOTTERY.COM/WHOBENEFITS Statistics and gures are from the 2019 Washington's Lottery Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. $ Results may not equal 100% due to rounding. RETAILERS 40.2M INSPIRATION FOR 2021 Happy New Year, Indians fans! Since we started the Home Base Community Update in June 2020, we’ve often asked our featured community members about their favorite quote. In this January edition, we compiled those quotes to help inspire you in the new year. Cheers to more positivity and motivation in 2021! “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made “You them feel.” 2293_SpokaneIndian2020Ad_FINAL.pdf 1 6/29/2020 8:01:34 AM become –Maya Angelou what you believe, so believe in “We yourself.” are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, “Nothing is not an act, but a in life is to be EDUCATION $166.7M C habit.” feared, it is only to be M –Aristotle understood. Now is the time Y to understand more, so that CM we may fear less.” IT’S FOR US, “Look –Marie Curie MY at a day when CY ALL OF US. you are supremely CMY WINNERS $490.4M satisfied at the end. It’s not K WHEN YOU PLAY, a day when you lounge around “You ALL OF doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve ain’t got no WASHINGTON had everything to do and guts!” WINS. you’ve done it.” -Kenny Holmberg –Margaret Thatcher WALOTTERY.COM/WHOBENEFITS Statistics and gures are from the 2019 Washington's Lottery Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. $ Results may not equal 100% due to rounding. RETAILERS 40.2M 3 REMEMBERING TOMMY SPOKANE, Wash. - Hall of pitcher - including a 25-strikeout Fame manager Tommy Lasorda, performance in 1948 - and spent who guided the 1970 Spokane parts of three seasons in the majors Indians to a Pacific Coast League with the Brooklyn Dodgers (1954- championship and later won a pair 55) and Kansas City Athletics of World Series titles with the Los (1956). After wrapping up his Angeles Dodgers, has died. He was playing career in 1960, Lasorda 93 years old. became a scout for the Dodgers before finding his true calling as “We are deeply saddened by the manager. He spent one season with passing of Tommy Lasorda, one of the Pocatello Chiefs and three with the most iconic figures in the history the Ogden Dodgers before being of our franchise,” said Spokane promoted to Spokane in 1969. Indians Senior Vice President Otto Klein. “Tommy was a larger-than-life The Indians finished 71-73 that personality and true ambassador season as a young team, that for the sport who left an indelible featured a pair of 19-year-olds in mark on the Spokane Indians. Our Bill Buckner and Bobby Valentine, thoughts are with his family and underwent growing pains against friends in this difficult time.” the veteran-laden teams of the PCL. Everything clicked for Lasorda A native of Norristown, Pa., Lasorda and Spokane the following year was a talented minor league though, with the Indians posting a CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE 4 94-52 record (26 games ahead of at the Sydney Olympics. He was the Portland Beavers in the North honored by the Spokane Indians Division) before sweeping the in 2007, becoming one of four Hawaii Islanders for the PCL title. permanent members of the team’s Players from that team would go on Rim of Honor. Lasorda was still a to account for 21 All-Star selections part of the Dodgers organization at and 23 World Series appearances, the time of his passing, serving as and Baseball America would later a special advisor to the chairman recognize the 1970 Indians as the in his seventh decade with the best minor league team in the franchise. He is survived by his second half of the 20th century. wife, Jo, daughter, Laura, and Lasorda would spend one more year granddaughter, Emily. in Spokane (69-76) before returning to the majors as the Dodgers “In a franchise that has celebrated third base coach in 1973, where such great legends of the game, he remained until taking over for no one who wore the uniform Walter Alston as manager in 1977. embodied the Dodger spirit as much as Tommy Lasorda,” Dodger Lasorda led the Dodgers to back- president and CEO Stan Kasten said. to-back pennants in 1977 and 1978 “A tireless spokesman for baseball, and captured his first World Series his dedication to the sport and the title against the arch-rival Yankees team he loved was unmatched. in 1981. He steered the Dodgers to He was a champion who at critical another Fall Classic victory in 1988, moments seemingly willed his teams four games to one over the Oakland to victory. The Dodgers and their Athletics, and continued at the helm fans will miss him terribly. Tommy in Los Angeles until his retirement is quite simply irreplaceable and in 1996. Overall, Lasorda finished unforgettable.” with a 1599-1439 (.526) record in 21 seasons and collected eight NL West titles, four NL Pennants, and a pair of World Series. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997, becoming the 15th manager and fifth Indians alum, joining Stan Coveleski, George Kelly, Duke Snider, and Hoyt Wilhelm, to be enshrined in Cooperstown. Lasorda continued as an active force in baseball following his retirement from the Dodgers and won a gold medal as manager of the U.S. Olympic Baseball Team in 2000 5 Keep staying safe at home. Call 811 at least two business days before you dig to avoid costly and dangerous utility line damage. myavista.com/safety HOMETOWN HERO throughout most of his life. In 2015, he found himself squatting in a trailer in Medical Lake with no job and no car. Knowing something needed to change, he hopped on a bus and made his way into town to enroll at Spokane Community College. On his first day of class, Rick met a homeless man named Jared, who had been robbed of his backpack full of belongings the night before. Rick posted on Facebook about this encounter later that evening, encouraging friends and family to help him fill a new backpack full of necessities RICK CLARK for Jared. As a result of Rick’s initial post, 25 backpacks were filled and The Spokane Indians announced just like that, Giving Back Packs was on January 11th that they were born. Over the past five years, 6,500 fielding nominations for this month’s backpacks have been filled and Hometown Hero. Within minutes, donated. nominations began rolling in, each one with the same nominee, a name When the Coronavirus Pandemic that is becoming more and more hit in early 2020, the logistics familiar throughout the Spokane surrounding Giving Back Packs community – Rick Clark. You may became harder to coordinate. have seen Rick featured in Mike Rick once again turned to his Rowe’s Returning the Favor, or read Facebook network, this time to help about him in any number of media local restaurants through a new features throughout the past several initiative, Spokane Quaranteam. months. His work with Giving Back A $200 goal was set for day one. Packs and Spokane Quaranteam has Rick raised $500. On day two, garnered local and national media he raised $1,000. Word quickly attention and helped thousands in spread of this initiative and Rick’s need. Facebook group continued to grow. Spokane Quaranteam has raised Rick Clark hasn’t always been a over $250,000, helped 150 local household name. Born and raised restaurants, and has donated over in Spokane, Rick has struggled 17,000 meals to homeless shelters, with poverty and homelessness CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE 7 first responders, truck drivers, days. He wants to show them that senior centers, and grocery store they have a purpose beyond what workers. The Facebook group they can imagine – because he’s that Rick started not only has over lived that firsthand! 28,000 members, but has sparked Quaranteam communities to show When asked if he had any advice up in other cities around the US. to others who are struggling, Rick gave us this powerful message: “Get Rick transferred to Gonzaga yourself connected – Force yourself after receiving a scholarship and to reach out to others and be a part graduated with his bachelor’s of something. You don’t have to degree. He is currently working wait until you’re ok to help others.” toward a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership. One of Spokane Quaranteam is no longer Rick’s many goals is to someday accepting donations, but join the teach, noting how inspired he has Facebook group to find out how been by some of his professors you can continue to support local throughout his journey. He even businesses. Also, check out the plans to give a TED Talk in October Giving Back Packs website (www. of this year. He hopes to find people gbpacks.org) for ways to donate or who are looking for that break in volunteer.